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Explorations in Australia

CHAPTER 2
12/68

Barometer 29.

Every appearance of rain, which we are in much want of.
2nd (Sunday).
Rested at Danjinning, which I found to be in south latitude 30 degrees 34 minutes by meridian altitude of the sun.

Read Divine Service.

Jemmy shot six gnows and a wurrong to-day.
3rd.
Steering in a northerly direction for sixteen miles, we reached Yalburnunging, a small grassy spot, with water in a native well, which we deepened four feet, and procured a plentiful supply.

For the first nine miles our route lay over scrubby sand-plains, after which we came into dense thickets and stunted gums.
4th.
Steering towards Mount Churchman, or Geelabbing, for about fifteen miles, we reached a grassy spot called Billeburring, and found water in a native well, probably permanent.


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