Four good-sized creeks entered the river from the southward.

The sandstone, or psammite, was composed of large grains of quartz mixed with clay of a whitish red or yellow colour; it frequently formed steep cliffs and craggy rugged little peaks.
The stringy-bark grew to a fine size on the hills, and would yield, together with Ironbark and the drooping tea-tree, the necessary timber for building.

A new species of Melaleuca and also of Boronia were found, when entering upon the sandstone formation.
The wind for the last few days has been westerly; cumuli forming during the day, dissolved towards sunset; the days were very hot, the nights mild and dry.

It was evident that we had descended considerably into the basin of the gulf.
June 9 .-- We travelled about ten miles north-west.

Box-tree flats, of more or less extent, were intercepted by abrupt barren craggy hills composed of sandstone, which seemed to rest on layers of argillaceous rock.