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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VI
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The ridges were covered with iron-coloured quartz pebbles, which rendered our bullocks footsore.

The marjoram was abundant, particularly near the scrubs, and filled the air with a most exquisite odour.

A mountain range was seen to the right; and, where the ranges of the head of the Isaacs abruptly terminated, detached hills and ridges formed the south-western and southern barrier of the waters of Suttor Creek.
March 8 .-- As we followed the creek about nine miles farther down, it became broader, and the Casuarinas were more frequent.

Its bed was sandy, occasionally filled with reeds, and contained numerous water-holes, particularly where the sandstone rock formed more retentive basins.
During the last two days we had drizzling rain, which cleared up a little about noon and at night.

The weather was delightfully cool; the wind was very strong from the eastward.


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