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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VII
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Cumuli in the afternoon, with wind from the south-east.
From our camp we saw a range of hills, bearing between N.5 degrees W.
and N.10 degrees W.; they were about three miles distant.

I called them "Thacker's Range," in acknowledgment of the support I received from--Thacker, Esq., of Sidney.
April 9 .-- We travelled about nine miles W.by N., and made our latitude 20 degrees 8 minutes 26 seconds.

The western end of Thacker's Range bore N.E.Two large creeks joined the river from the south and south-west.

The country was openly timbered; the Moreton Bay ash grew along the bergue of the river, where a species of Grewia seemed its inseparable companion.
The flooded-gum occupied the hollows and slopes of the river banks, which were covered with a high stiff grass to the water's edge, and the stream was fringed with a thicket of drooping tea trees, which were comparatively small, and much bent by the force of floods, the probable frequency of which may account for the reduced size of the tree.

The ridges were covered with rusty Gum and narrow-leaved Ironbark.


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