At 8.20, having crossed one mile and a half over
a sandy flat, wooded with gum, fig, cotton, coral, white cedar, and other
trees, we reached the flat rocky bed of a large watercourse. 8.50 one
mile and a quarter up the creek and crossed it; then one mile and
three-quarters over a fine plain with grass, pigweed, and salt herbs.
10.5 one mile and three-quarters took us over a barren low ridge, with
rusty-gum, box, bloodwood, severn, and other trees, to a grassy
watercourse with fine little holes of water; from its being boggy we were
delayed in crossing until 10.25. One mile and a half over grassy flats
and across another watercourse coming from the eastward. 12.45, having
gone over poor ridges for five miles, we reached a fine, rich, flat
valley, luxuriantly covered with barley and other grasses; delayed until
1.58 while some of our party tried, without success, to shoot an emu.
2.30, having come about four and a quarter miles, we reached a
watercourse and encamped; the water flows from the north-east and shows
extensive flood-marks. The valley I named Neumayer. Direction today
east-south-east; distance sixteen miles.

February 16. Sunday.

Rested ourselves and horses.

February 17.

Left camp at 6.35. Four and a half miles took us across low land, wooded
chiefly with (what I take it to be) excoecaria; then a mile over
unwooded, gently-undulating ground, which extended up the valley to
little bald hills. The land is well grassed. A site near those hills
would answer well for a lambing-ground for a sheep establishment. Then a
mile over high grassy lands, wooded with gum, broad-leaved box,
white-wood, and other trees; then two miles further to near the base of a
hill that was remarked from its only being wooded on its summit; then
three and a half miles over undulating well-grassed ground to a small
watercourse from the west; then three miles over flat poor country,
thickly wooded with bloodwood and other trees; then three and a half
miles over poor low ridges, covered with triodia and other grasses, and
wooded with bloodwood, tea, severn, and other trees, to a small
watercourse, where we encamped. Direction today east by south half south;
distance sixteen miles.

February 18.

We left Camp 7 (marked by mistake 8) at 8.16 this morning. At 11.45 we
had come nine miles and a half over two kinds of country--the first and
largest part consisting of poor low ridges, covered with inferior grasses
and wooded with bloodwo