.50 south-west and by west, half a mile up the creek to ford.
Distance come today four and a half miles.

February 12.

Camp 2, which we left this morning at 7.20, is situated about seven miles
south-east from the Albert River depot. In our journey today, although we
often got off the tracks of Walker's party, we did not altogether lose
them. Near where we encamped tonight Jemmy saw a dead horse. From last
camp we came over well-grassed, lightly wooded plains for five miles,
then over flat country for four and three-quarter miles. The land was
covered with good grasses and wooded with box and excoecaria. What I take
to be excoecaria resembles the tree Mr. Walker describes as being
probably the gutta-percha. The box trees are similar to those that grow
near the Murrumbidgee River. In the middle of the day I halted to make an
observation of the sun. I made its meridian altitude 85 degrees 32
minutes. The latitude is by that observation 17 degrees 59 minutes.
Afterwards we came out of the wooded country in one and a half miles,
then came over plains for four and a quarter miles, then crossed a
shallow watercourse and encamped. These plains had a higher elevation
than any we had seen since leaving the depot. The soil was rich and
luxuriantly covered with the best grasses, and slightly wooded with
white-wood. The white-wood I take to be the tree Mr. Gregory calls the
erythrina. We came here on the following courses: 9.20 five and a quarter
miles; 11.33 east-south-east four and three-quarter miles; 1.30
east-south-east one and a half miles and crossed a shallow watercourse
from the west; 2.40 east-south-east for four and a quarter miles and
crossed another shallow watercourse; 2.5 east-south-east for
three-quarters of a mile over low lands liable to inundation. Distance
today sixteen and a half miles.

February 13.

Number 3, our last camp, was situated on the right bank of a shallow
watercourse. As one of the horses had barely recovered the effects of
travelling on stony country when on the expedition to the south-west, we
had this morning to put a shoe on one of his feet with screw nails; the
screws, in the absence of proper nails, answer tolerably well. We started
at 9.6 and, having passed over a rich, lightly-wooded plain about eight
miles, we reached the Leichhardt River at a part where the tide reaches.
This river seems to be fully larger than the Albert. The tracks of
Walker's party were so indistinct on the rich p