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Explorations in Australia

CHAPTER 2
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There was a little rain during the night.
19th.
The horses having strayed back on our tracks, we did not start till 12 o'clock, when the journey was continued towards the granite range seen yesterday, about ten miles distant.

We camped on west side of North, with plenty of water from the recent rain on the granite rocks, but with very little feed.

At five miles crossed a dry stream-bed, eighteen yards wide, sandy bottom; thickets most of the way, but not very dense.
20th (Sunday).
Rested at camp.

Jemmy shot four rock kangaroos to-day.

Took a round of angles from a bare granite hill, North 50 degrees East magnetic, about one mile from camp, which I found to be in south latitude 28 degrees 57 minutes by meridian altitudes of Bootes (Arcturus) and a Pegasi (Markab); and in longitude about 120 degrees 55 minutes East.


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