[Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia by Ludwig Leichhardt]@TWC D-Link bookJournal of an Overland Expedition in Australia CHAPTER I 10/37
The latitude of our camp was 26 degrees 56 minutes 11 seconds. Oct.
6 .-- Was fully occupied with mending our packsaddles and straps, broken by the bullocks in throwing off their loads. Oct.
7 .-- In following the chain of lagoons to the westward, we came, after a few miles travelling, to the Condamine, which flows to the north-west: it has a broad, very irregular bed, and was, at the time, well provided with water--a sluggish stream, of a yellowish muddy colour, occasionally accompanied by reeds.
We passed several gullies and a creek from the northward, slightly running. The forest on the right side of the river was tolerably open, though patches of Myal scrub several times exposed us to great inconvenience; the left bank of the Condamine, as much as we could see of it, was a fine well grassed open forest.
Conglomerate and sandstone cropped out in several sections.
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