The flats increased on both side of the river, and were openly timbered with box and narrow-leaved Ironbark.

The rock near our yesterday's camp was talc-schist.

Farther down sienite was observed, which contained so much hornblende as to change occasionally into hornblende rock, with scattered crystals of quartz.

Granite and pegmatite were round some lagoons near the creek from the southward.

The clustered fig tree of the Burdekin, became again more frequent; but Sarcocephalus was the characteristic tree of the river.