and being
below that of the water, the latter oozed through. I am informed by
Mr. Wright, who was here in January last, that the creek contained
much more water then than now.

Country North of Naudtherungee Creek.--For a few miles to the north
of this creek the ground is very sandy, and timbered with pines,
acacias, and several descriptions of trees with which I am
unacquainted. There are two very handsome trees that I have never
seen in any other part of the country--the leopard tree (called so
from its spotted bark), and a tree which in general appearance much
resembles the poplar. On these sandhills the grass is very coarse,
but in the flats there is good feed. Beyond the sand rises the
country becomes more open again; and at about twelve or thirteen
miles one comes to quartz rises, from which there is a fine view to
the east, north, and west. Two creeks are distinctly visible by the
lines of gum timber; they take their rise near some hills to the
eastward, and passing around towards the north, join at a point
about three miles north-west, from whence the resulting creek
continues in a west-north-westerly direction, as far as the eye can
reach. The hills are composed of an argillaceous schist. On several
of the lower rises, quartz reefs crop out, and some of the quartz
which I examined had every appearance of being auriferous, except
the main one--the colour of the gold. There are some fine
waterholes in the first creek (Teltawongee), but I cannot say for
certain that the water is permanent. The whole of the country from
here to our next camp, a distance of twenty six miles, is the
finest I have seen for collecting and retaining water; and the only
question as to a permanent supply of that essential liquid is,
whether this part of the country is subject to long-continued
droughts; for the waterholes that we have met with are not large
enough to last for any great length of time, in the event of the
country being stocked. At ten miles from Teltawongee, we came to
the Wonominta--a creek having all the characteristics of
water-courses that take their rise in hills of schistoze formation.
At first, the numberless small waterholes, without the trace of a
creek connecting them, then the deep-cut narrow channel, with every
here and there a fine waterhole. The banks of the creek are clothed
with high grass and marshmallows. The latter grow to an immense
size on nearly all the creeks out here.

The Wonominta Ranges are h