The greater part, however, was open forest, principally of narrow-leaved Ironbark and Box, and occasionally poplar-gum.
One locality was particularly striking: a great number of rocky basins within the basalt, and surrounded by its black blocks, formed evidently so many lagoons during the wet season, as sedges and Polygonums--always inhabitants of constantly moist places--grew abundantly in most of them.
These basins were situated between low basaltic rises, along which narrow flats frequently extended.

The flooded gum-trees were fine and numerous, and made me frequently believe that I was approaching a creek.

I rode, however, over eighteen miles of country to the westward without observing the slightest watercourse.

Long flats bounded by slight undulations extended some to the northward, and others to the westward; but their inclination was imperceptible.

I passed some hills and plains; and ascending one of the hills, I obtained a fine view.