The extent of the neighbouring scrubs will, however, always form a serious drawback to the squatter, as it will be the lurking place and a refuge of the hostile natives, and a hiding place for the cattle, which would always retire to it in the heat of the day, or in the morning and evening, at which time the flies are most troublesome.
March 7 .-- I moved my camp through the mountain gorge, the passage of which was rather difficult, in consequence of large boulders of sandstone, and of thickets of narrow-leaved tea-trees growing in the bed of the river.

To the northward, it opens into fine gentle Ironbark slopes and ridges, which form the heads of the Isaacs.

They seem to be the favourite haunts of emus; for three broods of them were seen, of ten, thirteen, and even sixteen birds.

About four miles from the gorge, we came to the heads of another creek, which I called "Suttor Creek" after -- Suttor, Esq., who had made me a present of four bullocks when I started on this expedition; four or five miles farther down we found it well supplied with fine water-holes.

Here, however, patches of scrub again appeared.