In order to skirt the scrub, I had to keep to the north-east, which direction brought me, after about three miles travelling through open forest, to Mr.Hodgson's creek, at which John Murphy and Caleb had been lost.

The creek here consists of a close chain of fine rocky water-holes; the rock is principally clay, resembling very much a decomposed igneous rock, but full of nodules and veins of iron-stone.

I now turned to the northward, and encamped at the upper part of the creek.

To-day I took my old course to the north-west, and passed a scrubby Ironbark forest, and flat openly-timbered forest land.

I came again, however, to a Bricklow scrub, which I skirted, and after having crossed a very dense scrubby Ironbark forest, came to a chain of rushy water-holes, with the fall of the waters to the north-east.