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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VI
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The morning was clear and hot; the afternoon cloudy; a thunder-storm to the north-east.

We have observed nothing of the sea-breeze of the Mackenzie and of Peak Range, along the Suttor; but a light breeze generally sets in about nine o'clock P.M.
Charley met with a flock of twenty emus, and hunted down one of them.
March 28 .-- We travelled down the river to latitude 20 degrees 41 minutes 35 seconds.

The country was improving, beautifully grassed, openly timbered, flat, or ridgy, or hilly; the ridges were covered with pebbles, the hills rocky.

The rocks were baked sandstone, decomposed granite, and a dark, very hard conglomerate: the latter cropped out in the bed of the river where we encamped.

Pebbles of felspathic porphyry were found in the river's bed.


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