The scrub is generally an open Vitex; a fine drooping tea-tree lines the banks of the river; Casuarina disappears; the flooded-gum is frequent, but of smaller size.
The Mackenzie-bean and several other papilionaceous plants, with some new grasses, grow in it.

The most interesting plant, however, is a species of Datura, from one to two feet high, which genus has not previously been observed in Australia.

I also found species of Heliotropium of a most fragrant odour.
Sandstone cropped out in several places, and red quartz pebbles were very abundant in some parts of the river; the sands of its bed are so triturated that no one would ever surmise the existence of granitic rocks, at sixteen or twenty miles higher up.

The whole country was flat; no hill was visible, but, towards the end of our day's journey, we crossed a few slight undulations.
During the night of the 14th, southerly winds were followed by a gale from the eastward, with scud and drizzling rain.

The morning of the 15th was cloudy with a little rain; wind southerly.