covered with good grasses and wooded with box and excoecaria. What I take
to be excoecaria resembles the tree Mr. Walker describes as being
probably the gutta-percha. The box trees are similar to those that grow
near the Murrumbidgee River. In the middle of the day I halted to make an
observation of the sun. I made its meridian altitude 85 degrees 32
minutes. The latitude is by that observation 17 degrees 59 minutes.
Afterwards we came out of the wooded country in one and a half miles,
then came over plains for four and a quarter miles, then crossed a
shallow watercourse and encamped. These plains had a higher elevation
than any we had seen since leaving the depot. The soil was rich and
luxuriantly covered with the best grasses, and slightly wooded with
white-wood. The white-wood I take to be the tree Mr. Gregory calls the
erythrina. We came here on the following courses: 9.20 five and a quarter
miles; 11.33 east-south-east four and three-quarter miles; 1.30
east-south-east one and a half miles and crossed a shallow watercourse
from the west; 2.40 east-south-east for four and a quarter miles and
crossed another shallow watercourse; 2.5 east-south-east for
three-quarters of a mile over low lands liable to inundation. Distance
today sixteen and a half miles.

February 13.

Number 3, our last camp, was situated on the right bank of a shallow
watercourse. As one of the horses had barely recovered the effects of
travelling on stony country when on the expedition to the south-west, we
had this morning to put a shoe on one of his feet with screw nails; the
screws, in the absence of proper nails, answer tolerably well. We started
at 9.6 and, having passed over a rich, lightly-wooded plain about eight
miles, we reached the Leichhardt River at a part where the tide reaches.
This river seems to be fully larger than the Albert. The tracks of