learn was not a profitable article. However it is first-rate for
firewood, giving a better light than other woods, and the perfume it
emits is disliked by mosquitoes. From our path today we observed that the
right side of the river was confined by wooded ranges extending without
prominent features from Bramston Range to table ranges near here. We
travelled on the following courses: 8.50 east and by north one and a half
miles to a little hill; 10.15 north-east and by east for three miles;
11.10 east-north-east two and three-quarter miles to Walker Creek; 3.10
north-east twelve miles to encampment. Distance today seventeen and
three-quarter miles.

March 16.

Today Fisherman and I left the party in camp to ascend the lowest down of
the three table ranges on the right bank of the Flinders River. We
reached the left bank of the river in a north-north-east direction in
about two miles and a half. The river has a sandy level bed which is
about eighty yards wide. After crossing the river Fisherman marked a
gumtree growing at the bottom of the bank E broad arrow over L. From the
river we reached the base of the range in rather less than a mile. I
expected to find it of a sandstone formation with triodia on its surface,
but on ascending the range I found that, although it had a sandstone
formation, it was covered with a dark perforated basalt and at other
places with rich soil and good grass. From the summit I observed that the
river was joined at a short distance above this range by a tributary to
the south-east, and that the following hills bore in the directions
named: A high distant table range which I have named after Frederick
Walker, Esquire, my brother explorer, 130 degrees; a table range
three-quarters of a mile distant 90 degrees; a table range about three
miles distant 45 degrees; three conical hills on a range about seven