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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VI
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The Suttor winds round its western base, and, at four or five miles beyond it, in a northerly direction, and in latitude 20 degrees 37 minutes 13 seconds joins a river, the bed of which, at the junction, is fully a mile broad.

Narrow and uninterrupted belts of small trees were growing within the bed of the latter, and separated broad masses of sand, through which a stream ten yards broad and from two to three feet deep, was meandering; but which at times swells into large sheets of water, occasionally occupying the whole width of the river.

Charley reported that he had seen some black swans, and large flights of ducks and pelicans.

This was the most northern point at which the black swan was observed on our expedition..


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