igh, bare-looking hills, lying to the
eastward of the creek; the highest peaks must be between two and
three thousand feet above the sea. The blacks say that there is no
water in them--an assertion that I can scarcely credit. They say,
however, that there is a fine creek, with permanent water, to the
east of the ranges, flowing northwards. At the point of the
Wonominta Creek where we camped there is a continuous waterhole of
more than a mile long, which, they say, is never dry. It is from
fifteen to twenty feet broad, and averages about five feet in
depth, as near as I could ascertain. From this point, Camp 43, the
creek turns to the north-west and around to north, where it enters
a swamp, named Wannoggin; it must be the same that Sturt crossed in
coming across from Evelyn Plains. In going over to Wannoggin, a
distance of fourteen miles, I found the plains everywhere
intersected by small creeks, most of them containing water, which
was sheltered from the sun by the overhanging branches of drooping
shrubs, tall marshmallows, and luxuriant salt bushes; and at some
of them were hundreds of ducks and waterhens. When crossing some
flats of light-coloured clay soil, near Wannoggin, and which were
covered with box timber, one might almost fancy himself in another
planet, they were so arid and barren. The Wannoggin Swamp is at
present dry, but I believe it is generally a fine place for water.
Birds are very numerous about there, and I noticed that by far the
greater portion of the muslka trees (a species of acacia) contained
nests, either old or new.

At about twenty miles from Wonominta, in a north-north-easterly
direction, there is a fine creek, with a waterhole about a mile
long, which we passed; and Mr. Wright tells me there is a larger
one further up the creek.

The land in the neighbourhood of the Torowoto Swamp is very fine
for pastoral purposes. It is rather low and swampy, and therefore
better for cattle than for sheep. There appears to be a gradual
fall in the land from Totoynya to this place, amounting to about
500 feet. This swamp can scarcely be more than 600 feet above the
sea, if so much. The highest ground over which we have passed has
been in the Mount Doubeny Ranges, from Langawirra to Bengora, and
that appears to be about 1000 feet above the sea. Mount Bengora is,
by barometrical observation, about 300 feet above the camp at
Bengora, but it is not the highest peak in the range by perhaps
fifty or sixty fe