After several attempts to cross, we had to turn to the N.N.

E.and east, in order to head it, travelling through a most beautiful open Ironbark forest, with the grass in full seed, from three to four feet high.

Following a hollow, in which the fall of the country was indicated by the grass bent by the run of water after heavy showers of rain, we came to fine water-holes, about five miles from our last camp.
At the other side of the valley, we saw distant ranges to the north-west and northward.

The scrub was occasionally more open, and fine large bottle-trees (Sterculia) were frequent: the young wood of which, containing a great quantity of starch between its woody fibres, was frequently chewed by our party.

Fusanus was abundant and in full bearing; its fruit (of the size of a small apple), when entirely ripe and dropped from the tree, furnished a very agreeable repast: the rind, however, which surrounds its large rough kernel, is very thin.
Oct.