water, they were proceeding to the north-east in search of it. Continuing
the same course we reached at 8 p.m. water and encamped. The land we
passed over today is good; the soil is a rich reddish loam. The country
consists of downs luxuriantly covered with good grasses except at places
which are overrun with roley-poley. These downs are thinly wooded in
places with myall, white-wood, and Port Curtis sandalwood. Frederick
Walker's Table Mountain is of a sandstone formation and is covered at
places with triodia. On the southern side of it there is a dry
watercourse which rises from the northward. At many places in coming up
this river we have observed a most interesting vine which produced pods
of beautiful silky cotton. As the pods were pleasant to eat we were on
the continual lookout for it. Distance today about eighteen miles.

March 19. Camp 29, situated on flat ground on the left side of a small
watercourse at a point bearing in the following way from the following
ranges: one end of Frederick Walker's Table Mountain about five miles
distant, the other end about four miles distant, 245 degrees; one end of
a table range about one and a half miles distant from Frederick Walker's
Table Mountain 199 degrees; the other end 192 degrees; the end of a long
table range 160 degrees.

Jemmy was so unwell this morning that we had to delay some time before he
could proceed. Started at 9.52 a.m. Having come three miles north-east we
waited for some time as Gleeson was too unwell to travel. Afterwards we
proceeded about two miles and encamped. The land we saw today was on the
whole well grassed; the flattest portions of it are wooded with myall,
Port Curtis sandalwood, and western-wood acacia. The country looking from
the unwooded plains is beautiful and with luxuriant herbage; the
surrounding isolated ranges lends an interest to the scenery. The river
has here a sandy channel about 120 paces wide with a shallow stream