The only trees now to be seen were a few box-trees along their skirts, and on the line of the creeks, which last were a perfectly new feature in the country, and surprised me greatly.

The tract we passed over on this day was certainly more subject to overflow than usual.

Large flats of polygonum, and plains having rents and fissures in them, succeeded those I have already described.

At ten miles we intersected a creek of considerable size, but without any water; just below where we crossed its channel it spreads over a large flat and is lost.

Proceeding onwards, at a mile and a half, we ascended a line of sand hills, and from them descended to firmer ground than that on which we had previously travelled.