e bank E broad arrow over L. From the
river we reached the base of the range in rather less than a mile. I
expected to find it of a sandstone formation with triodia on its surface,
but on ascending the range I found that, although it had a sandstone
formation, it was covered with a dark perforated basalt and at other
places with rich soil and good grass. From the summit I observed that the
river was joined at a short distance above this range by a tributary to
the south-east, and that the following hills bore in the directions
named: A high distant table range which I have named after Frederick
Walker, Esquire, my brother explorer, 130 degrees; a table range
three-quarters of a mile distant 90 degrees; a table range about three
miles distant 45 degrees; three conical hills on a range about seven
miles distant respectively 44, 43 and 39 degrees; a tent-topped hill
about seven miles distant 22 1/2 degrees; a hill with an irregular top
about nineteen miles distant 20 degrees; Bramston Range 245 degrees;
encampment 195 degrees. After descending the range we proceeded to the
junction of the creek and marked trees on both sides of the river just
above its junction. Between the hill and the river we found marjoram, a
plant that we have been searching for since we got our last supply at the
Leichhardt River, to use as a substitute for tea; and also found--what
interested us much more--the old tracks of an expedition party. The
tracks were very indistinct but, as Fisherman succeeded in following them
for a short distance to the north-west, I suppose that they were the
tracks of Walker's party when on their way from the Nogoa to the Albert
River.

March 17. Camp 27, situated on the left bank of a southern outlet from
the Flinders River at a point about five miles south-south-west from the
table-topped ranges on the opposite side of the river.

The horses were so much scattered that almost the whole of the forenoon
was spent in bringing them in. The main party left camp rather before
noon. Jemmy and I stayed behind to get an observation of the sun. Started
on the tracks of our party at 12.20. We came along unwooded, well-grassed
land at the back of country wooded with myall for three and a half miles,
then over country more overrun with roley-poley but otherwise of a
similar character for two miles to the termination of the myall. Here I
observed that we were about four and a half miles west from the end of a
range, which I suppo