rest portion of which lay about a mile and
a half to the westward. At about nine miles we again touched the
creek, where it is about three chains broad. The banks are firm and
shelving, from ten to twelve feet above the water, and lined with
box, acacias, some large gums, gigantic marshmallows, polygonum,
etc. In the creek there is abundance of fish, and the ducks and
other waterfowl on it are numberless. From what we have seen of the
blacks, I should say the population cannot be far short of 150, and
it might be considerably more. From here we proceeded in an
east-north-easterly direction along the west bank of this fine
waterhole, and at two and a half miles found it begin rapidly to
decrease in breadth, and a little further on there was nothing but
a few small stony watercourses traversing a dense box forest: at
this point there is a level bed of sandstone pebbles, close to and
over a part of which the creek flows. The blacks have here gone to
the trouble of making paths for themselves, along which we turned
off from the creek on a north-north-easterly course, and at about
three miles, coming on earthy plains, with no signs of water ahead,
we again turned in to the creek and camped at a small waterhole.
From here the line of river timber continues in a north-easterly
direction. To the west and north-north-west is a line of sandstone
ranges running off in the same direction. The land in the immediate
vicinity of the creek on the west side is very poorly grassed all
the way up from where we crossed it: that on the east side appeared
to be better.

I think there can scarcely be a doubt but that this creek is the
lower portion of the Warrego River, although I believe that its
main supply of water is obtained from the adjoining ranges, which
send down innumerable creeks into the flats through which it flows.

Some latitude observations at Camp 53, (the furthest point to which
we traced the creek) placed us in 28 degrees 16 minutes 40 seconds
south; our latitude, by account, being 28 degrees 17 minutes 8
seconds, and longitude, 143 degrees 18 minutes east. On Thursday,
November 8th, we left Wright's Creek with the intention of crossing
the ranges to Cooper's Creek. We found the land as we approached
the hills well grassed, and in some places densely timbered: it is
intersected by numerous watercourses with deep sandy channels, in
most of which there seemed little chance of finding water. We
camped at a waterhole in McDo