rably; but this I had from a reliable source, that
horses will eat the pea in large quantities without being
injuriously affected, provided they can obtain other food as well;
but that when they are on portions of the river where they can get
nothing else to eat, then they soon get an attack of madness.

Menindie to Scrope Ranges.--The country between Menindie and
Kokriega, in the Scrope Ranges, a distance of thirty-six miles in a
northerly direction, is a fine open tract of country, well grassed,
but having no permanent water. At Kokriega there is a well which
may be relied on for a small supply, but would be of no use in
watering cattle in large numbers. The ranges are composed of
ferruginous sandstone and quartz conglomerate, and as to vegetation
are of a very uninviting aspect. The plain to the south is covered
with quartz and sandstone pebbles. About five miles to the
north-east of the Kokriega is a spot where the schist rock crops
out from under the sandstone, and the rises here have somewhat of
an auriferous character.

North of the Scrope Range.--To the north of the Scrope Range the
country has much the same appearance, except that there are more
trees, and no stones until one reaches the Mount Doubeny Ranges, a
distance of nearly forty miles. At a spot half way, named Botoga,
there are some flats well calculated for collecting and retaining
rain water.

Mount Doubeny Range.--In this range there are, no doubt, many
places where permanent water may be found in considerable
quantities. Two places I may mention where the water is certainly
permanent--Mutwongee, a gully midway between camps 39 and 40; and
Bengora Creek, the latter camp.

Country North of Mount Doubeny.--From these ranges up to our
present position we have passed over as good grazing country as one
would wish to see; salt bushes of every kind, grass in abundance,
and plenty of water. Amongst the ranges we found kangaroo grass as
high as our shoulders, and on the plains the spear grass up to our
knees.

Naudtherungee Creek.--At this creek, which takes its rise near
Mount Lyell, and probably flows into the McFarlane's Creek of
Sturt, we found a small shallow pond of water, in the sandy bed of
the creek. This did not look very promising, but on digging I found
that the whole bed of the creek was a mass of loose sand, through
which the water freely permeated, and that the waterhole we found
was only a spot where, the level of the surface of the s