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FROM THE HUTT RIVER TO WATER PEAK.
WILD TURKEYS SEEN.
April 6.
We moved off this morning on a course of 180 degrees.

The first mile of our journey was over low scrubby ironstone hills.

We then came down upon rich flats through which the main branch of the Hutt ran; and followed the course of this branch for about two miles.

It was not running but there were many pools with water in its bed: the flats were rich and grassy and on the hills to the westward (the Menai Hills) we descried wild turkeys, being the farthest point north at which I had seen this bird.
As I saw that the ground in front of us was very steep and abrupt, so that the weak and weary would have found it a difficult task to master such an ascent, I turned off on a course of 168 degrees, ascending a sandy tableland covered with scrub.