or an hour. From the waterhole we
quite unexpectedly obtained a rather fine fish, about eight inches
long, of the same description as the young ones we had found in
Brahe's Creek.

Cooper's Creek.--At the point at which we first struck Cooper's
Creek it was rocky, sandy, and dry; but about half a mile further
down we came to some good waterholes, where the bed of the creek
was very boggy, and the banks richly grassed with kangaroo and
other grasses. The general course is a little north of west, but it
winds about very much between high sand hills. The waterholes are
not large, but deep, and well shaded, both by the steep banks and
the numerous box trees surrounding them. The logs and bushes high
upon the forks of the trees, tell of the destructive floods to
which this part of the country has been subjected, and that at no
very distant period, as may be seen by the flood marks on trees of
not more than five or six years' growth.

From Camp 57 we traced the creek in a west-north-westerly direction
about six miles. It then runs out among the sand hills, the water
flowing by various small channels in a south-westerly direction.
The main channel, however, continues nearly south until it is lost
on an extensive earthy plain covered with marshmallows and
chrysanthemums.

Creek.--In one of the valleys between the sand hills, at a distance
of about ten miles in a south-westerly direction, we found a
shallow waterhole where a creek is formed for a short distance, and
is then lost again on the earthy plain beyond. West by north and
west from here, about twelve miles, there are some splendid sheets
of water, in some places two and three chains broad; the banks well
timbered, but the land in the neighbourhood so loose and rotten
that one can scarcely ride over it. I expect this is the reason why
we saw no blacks about here, for it must be worse for them to walk
over than the stony ground. From Camp 60 the general course of the
creek is north-west, but it frequently disappears on the earthy
plains for several miles, and then forms into waterholes again
finer than before. At our first depot, Camp 63, in latitude 27
degrees 36 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 141 degrees 30
minutes east, there is a fine hole about a mile long, and on an
average one chain and a half broad. It exceeds five feet in depth
everywhere that I tried it, except within three or four feet of the
bank. Two or three miles above this camp we saw the first me