To the east and north the view was intercepted by long stony rises, apparently covered with spinifex.

Large white gum clumps studded the plains in every direction.

Evidences of heavy rainfall at certain times to be seen everywhere.

Barometer 28.28; thermometer 72 degrees at 5 p.m.; latitude 26 degrees 13 minutes 4 seconds South.
18th.
Steered South-South-East for four miles, then South-East generally, towards the flat-topped hills seen yesterday, and which bore 144 degrees East magnetic from Spinifex Hill.

At six miles crossed a low range covered with spinifex, after which we passed over country generally well grassed, some of it most beautifully, and white gums very large in clumps were studded all over the plains.