We frequently met with the grass tree (Xanthorrhaea.) May 23 .-- We moved our camp to the westerly creek I had found the day before, which with several others formed the heads of a river, flowing to the N.W.I called this river the "Lynd," after R.Lynd, Esq., a gentleman to whom I am under the greatest obligation, for his unmeasured liberality and kindness enabled me to devote my time exclusively to the pursuits of science and exploration.
The nights had been as usual very cold, and the dew very heavy.

The prevailing breeze was from the east, veering towards evening to the north-east; during the morning a cold south-east wind.

The rock was primitive, granite and pegmatite in several varities, with a few exceptions of anagenitic formation.

Near the place of our first encampment on the Lynd, in lat.

17 degrees 58 minutes, I observed a sienite, to which the distribution of the hornblende in layers had given the stratified appearance of gneiss.