There was not sufficient water to render it worth our while to stop; but the well being nine feet deep, shewed the succession of strata as follows: four feet of good alluvial soil; three feet of white clay; and two feet of sea sand.
I should perhaps have been more particular in the description of our interview with the old man and his family on the northern side of the earthy plain.

As I have stated, he called out to us, and in order to discover what he wanted, I held Mr.Browne's horse, while he dismounted and went to him.

The old native would not, however, sit down, but pointed to the S.E.as the direction in which, as far as we could understand, the horse, "cadli" (dog), as he called him, the only large four-legged brute of which he knew any thing, had gone.

The poor fellow cried, and the tears rolled down his cheeks when he first met Mr.Browne, and the women chanted a most melancholy air during the time we remained, to keep the evil spirits off, I suppose; but they had nothing to fear from us, if they could only have known it.

This confusion of tongues is a sad difficulty in travelling the wilds of Australia.