but all the vegetation was withered from the dryness of the season.  It, like the other gullies we saw afterwards, was surrounded by basaltic hills, which were again surrounded by basaltic columns composed of rocks of a more grotesque form than the columns which are common in a granite formation.  The rocks were so rough that it was unpleasant to lean against them; and were very severe on the feet of the horses.  These columns, with the bottle-trees in the foreground and the open flats and basaltic hills in the distance, had a picturesque appearance.  When we had got three-quarters of a mile about north-west we started again to overtake our party.  At 12.15 made one mile and a quarter north down a gully; at 12.23 made quarter of a mile north-east to where Fisherman and I thought we were on a flat of the Gregory River near its junction with the O’Shanassy; at 12.52 made one mile and a half east-north-east across the plains to the right of a range towards Smith’s Range, on the right side of the O’Shanassy River and its junction with the Gregory River; at 1.9 made three-quarters of a mile north to the left bank of the O’Shanassy River, where we got the tracks of Campbell and party; at 1.45 made one mile and a half north-west to broad arrow before L marked tree, on the point formed by the junction of the Gregory with the O’Shanassy River, near which we found our party had formed their 33rd camp on the right bank of the Gregory River.

Thursday January 9.  Camp Number 33.  Situated between the junction of the Gregory and the O’Shanassy River.

We left here at 8 a.m.; at 8.15 made half a mile south-east to where we crossed O’Shanassy River to follow down the Gregory River; at 8.37 made three-quarters of a mile north.  Then from the right bank of the river we went round a hill which terminated abruptly at it; at 8.45 made quarter of a mile east-north-east over stony ridges covered with triodia; at 8.53 made a quarter of a mile north-north-west over similar country; at 9.9 made half a mile north-west to the river; at 9.37 made one mile and a quarter north-east by east to where we crossed a small creek near its junction with the river; at 9.55 made three-quarters of a mile north-east by east to where the river is confined on both sides by ridges; those on the right side are isolated; at 10.45 made two miles and a quarter east half north and delayed till 10.55; at 11.15 made three-quarters of a mile east to a hill which rises abruptly from right side of river; at 11.26 made quarter of a mile south-east back from the river; at 11.45 made three-quarters of a mile east-north-east to where we crossed a small creek near its junction to the right side of the river; at 12.10 made one mile north-east to a patch of good soil with good grass, but old and withered.  At 1.5 made two miles and three-quarters over flats and ridges, the former of good soil but the grass burnt up from the dryness of the season, the latter stony and badly grassed, to a gap with an isolated hill