[Explorations in Australia by John Forrest]@TWC D-Link bookExplorations in Australia CHAPTER 5 47/237
This is a very nice spot, surrounded as it is by spinifex. Variation 2 degrees 40 minutes West by observation. 23rd. Continued on North-East for about twelve miles over spinifex plains and sandy ridges.
Went on ahead with Windich, and came to a gorge and some granite rocks with abundance of water, and were soon joined by the party. Barometer 28.30; thermometer 60 degrees at 6 p.m.; latitude 25 degrees 53 minutes 52 seconds by Altair. 24th (Sunday). We rested at camp.
I was all day calculating lunar observations. Barometer 28.22; thermometer 64 degrees at 5.30 p.m. FRERE RANGES. 25th. Travelled onwards about North 40 degrees East for eight miles, passing a low granite range at six miles.
Came to a fine brook trending a little south of east, which we followed downwards seven miles, running nearly east.
This brook was full of water, some of the pools being eight or ten feet deep, ten yards wide, and sixty yards long.
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