about three and a half miles over country like what I have just described we reached the isolated hill and Mr. Bourne and I ascended it.  It is surrounded by rich, well-grassed, high downs, wooded at places with small belts of myall.  The shape of the hill is like an artificial mound with the ruins of a tower on its summit.  It is so like a hill I saw when I was last on Bowen Downs that I almost fancied it the same.  The hills in this neighbourhood however do not correspond with those in my chart.  About four and a half miles to the north-north-west we observed two table-topped hills, and in the distance to the south-south-east a hill which may be the Simon Pure Tower-hill.  From the hill we came east half north two and a half miles and encamped.

March 28.

We started this morning at 8.55.  When we had come about sixteen miles we reached Tower-hill.  On its summit I found a small tree that I remembered Mr. N. Buchanan had marked L when on my first expedition to this part of the country.  Almost half the way to Tower-hill was wooded with myall and western-wood acacia.  In the middle of that wooded country we crossed a range and observed unwooded downs to the right of our path.  The remainder of the way was rich undulating ground slightly wooded with trees and grassed with the best grasses.  To the left of our course there was low ground wooded at places with box, and at other places with western-wood acacia.  From the range in the first part of the way Tower-hill bore south-east and by south, and a little range south-south-east (the latter is about one and a half miles west-south-west from Tower-hill).  After descending Tower-hill we came half a mile and encamped.  In a waterhole near camp Mr. Bourne and I while bathing found mussels in abundance; but as our caterers, of whom Mr. Bourne was the chief, had shot two turkeys we did not gather any mussels.  We came on the following courses:  10.30 south four miles to a range; 12 south-south-east two and three-quarter miles to open downs; 2.45 south-east eight and a quarter miles to Tower-hill; east half a mile to encampment.  Distance today sixteen and a half miles.

March 29.

From last camp we reached Landsborough’s Creek in twenty-three and a half miles.  I expected today to have reached a station that Mr. Buchanan when I left Brisbane told me he intended forming on this creek.  I told my party to expect that we would here get fresh provisions.  When we had travelled upwards of ten miles from last camp, and in that distance only saw the appearance of a single horse track, I came to the conclusion that Mr. Buchanan had taken no stock up the creek, and changed our course so as to strike it lower down.  Further on Mr. Bourne, Gleeson, and I felt confident we were on stocked country; but this impression was soon changed by Fisherman telling us that he believed the grass had been eaten off by grasshoppers.  The country we crossed today is a rich soil and is wooded along the watercourses