3 .-- The dew was heavy through the night; and, in the morning, loose rainy clouds gathered from the east and north-east, which, however, disappeared about eleven o'clock.

Charley went back to the camp, to bring it on, and I continued to reconnoitre to the north-west.

After passing a sandstone ridge, I came to a creek, which went to the north-west, and which was supplied with water by the late thunder-showers.

It was bounded on both sides by sandstone ridges, whose summits were covered with scrub and Acacia thickets; and by grassy slopes and flats bearing narrow-leaved Ironbark and Bastard-box.

This would be a most beautiful country, if it contained a constant supply of water.
I observed on the ridges an Acacia, a small tree, from thirty to forty feet high, and from six to nine inches in diameter, and easily distinguished by its peculiar rough frizzled bark, similar to that of the Casuarina found at the ranges of the Robinson.