Left here at 7.7; at 7.18 went half a mile north-north-west to a cleft
hill on the left bank of the river; at 7.35 went three-quarters of a mile
north; at 7.52 went half a mile north-east; at 8 went quarter of a mile
east-north-east to where we got any quantity of figs from trees like the
Moreton Bay fig but another variety. At 8.20 made half a mile north-east.
This scrub is composed of Leichhardt, tea, fig, and cabbage-palm-trees,
where we were delayed till 8.42 from having to pull one of the horses
that had got into a boggy place out. Pandanus along the edge of the
reaches of water. At 9.10 made half a mile north-north-east through the
scrub; at 9.50 made one mile north by east through the scrub; at 10.5
made half a mile north-north-west which took us out of the scrub and to a
fine reach of water; at 10.20 made half a mile north-north-east to where
we crossed a small reedy creek near its junction with the river; at 10.35
made three-quarters of a mile north-north-east along the left side of the
reach of water mentioned. I, accompanied by Fisherman, here made a
deviation from the river. While Campbell and party proceeded down the
river we went up a gully of the richest soil, but all the vegetation was
withered from the dryness of the season. It, like the other gullies we
saw afterwards, was surrounded by basaltic hills, which were again
surrounded by basaltic columns composed of rocks of a more grotesque form
than the columns which are common in a granite formation. The rocks were
so rough that it was unpleasant to lean against them; and were very
severe on the feet of the horses. These columns, with the bottle-trees in
the foreground and the open flats and basaltic hills in the distance, had
a picturesque appearance. When we had got three-quarters of a mile about
north-west we started again to overtake our party. At 12.15 made one mile
and a quarter north down a gully; at 12.23 made quarter of a mile
north-east to where Fisherman and I thought we were on a flat of the
Gregory River near its junction with the O'Shanassy; at 12.52 made one
mile and a half east-north-east across the plains to the right of a range