We had ridden about ten miles from the place where we had slept, and Mr.Browne and I were talking together, when Flood, who was some little distance a-head, held up his hat and called out to us.

We were quite sure from this circumstance that he had seen something unusual, and on riding up were astonished at finding ourselves on the banks of a beautiful creek, the bed of which was full both of water and grass.

The bank on our side was twenty feet high, and shelved too rapidly to admit of our taking the horses down, but the opposite bank was comparatively low.
Immediately within view were two large sheets of water around the margin of which reeds were growing, but nevertheless these ponds were exceedingly shallow.

The direction of this fine watercourse was N.by W.
and S.by E., coming from the first and falling to the last point, thus enabling us to trace it up without changing our own.

A little above where we intersected its channel two small tributaries join it, or, I am more inclined to think, two small branches go from it; for we had apparently been rising as we came up the valley, but more especially as the direction from which they appeared to come (the S.W.), was almost opposite to the course of the creek itself.