Rested ourselves and horses.

February 17.

Left camp at 6.35. Four and a half miles took us across low land, wooded
chiefly with (what I take it to be) excoecaria; then a mile over
unwooded, gently-undulating ground, which extended up the valley to
little bald hills. The land is well grassed. A site near those hills
would answer well for a lambing-ground for a sheep establishment. Then a
mile over high grassy lands, wooded with gum, broad-leaved box,
white-wood, and other trees; then two miles further to near the base of a
hill that was remarked from its only being wooded on its summit; then
three and a half miles over undulating well-grassed ground to a small
watercourse from the west; then three miles over flat poor country,
thickly wooded with bloodwood and other trees; then three and a half
miles over poor low ridges, covered with triodia and other grasses, and
wooded with bloodwood, tea, severn, and other trees, to a small
watercourse, where we encamped. Direction today east by south half south;
distance sixteen miles.

February 18.

We left Camp 7 (marked by mistake 8) at 8.16 this morning. At 11.45 we
had come nine miles and a half over two kinds of country--the first and
largest part consisting of poor low ridges, covered with inferior grasses
and wooded with bloodwood, tea, and other trees; the second part
consisting of flat country, rich soil, well grassed, and wooded with
bauhinia and western-wood acacia. The acacia I have mentioned is called
gidya in some places of Australia. Then, after crossing, in half a mile,