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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VI
13/41

A Ruellia, with large white and blue flowers, adorned the grassy flats along the Suttor.
The latitude of this spot was 21 degrees 26 minutes 36 seconds.
March 14 .-- We removed down the river about eight miles S.S.

W.to good water-holes, which had been seen by my companions the day before.

Here the scrub approached the river, leaving only a narrow belt of open forest, which was occasionally interrupted by low ridges of stunted silver-leaved Ironbark.

Pegmatite and Porphyry (with a very few small crystals of felspar) and Gneiss?
were observed in situ.

On our way we passed a fine lagoon.


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