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Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And

CHAPTER VIII
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This however was somewhat larger than those, and though steep-sided as they were it did not disclose the same white strata of chalk and gypsum, its formation being more rocky and of rather a slaty character.
September 15 .-- Pushing on rapidly over extensive plains very similar to those we had already crossed, we arrived, after a long stage, under Baxter's range, and encamped upon a small channel coming from it, with abundance of water and good grass.

This range is high and rocky, rising abruptly out of the plains, and distinctly visible from Mount Arden, from which it is about fifty miles distant.

Its formation is entirely conglomerate of rather a coarse description.

Among its rugged overhanging steeps are many of the large red species of wallabie similar to those we had seen to the north at the Scott.

Two of these we shot.


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