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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VII
13/44

Sienite cropped out on the flats between these two ranges.

I commanded a most extensive view from the higher range.

High and singularly crenelated ranges were seen to the south-west; detached peaks and hills to the westward; short ranges and peaks to the north; and considerable ranges between north and north-east.

A river was observed to join the Burdekin from the ranges to the south-west.
Numerous kangaroos were seen bounding over the rocky slopes to the grassy glens below.

A stunted silver-leaved Ironbark covered the hills.
April 10 .-- The night was very cold, particularly towards morning, and the dew heavy; the morning was calm; a breeze from the south-east set in at nine o'clock a.m.; cumuli formed about eleven o'clock, and became very heavy during the afternoon.
The country over which we travelled about eight miles N.by W., was one of the finest we had seen.


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