fruit, with a thin fleshy pericarp, of an exceedingly bitter taste; the capsules were one-seeded.  The gullies were full of bush-trees, amongst which the Bottle-tree, and the Corypha-palm were frequent.  Pomaderris and Flindersia were in fruit and blossom.  According to Mr. Gilbert, rock wallabies were very numerous.  On a RECONNOISSANCE I traversed the continuation of the range, which I found to be of a flat, sandy, and rotten character, having, with the exception of the Blackbutt, all the trees and other characteristics of the sandstone country of Moreton Bay:  Xylomelum, Xanthorrhaea, Zamia, Leptospermum, a new species of forest oak, which deserves the name of Casuarina VILLOSA, for its bark looks quite villous; Persoonia falcata, R. Br., a small tree about fifteen feet high, with stiff glaucous falcate leaves, and racemose inflorescence; a dwarf Persoonia, with linear leaves, the stringy-bark, and a species of Melaleuca along the creek.  In my excursion I crossed the main branch of Robinson’s Creek, and found the gullies of its right bank as steep and tremendous as those of the left.  Water was very scarce.  The whole country is composed of a fine-grained sandstone.

As the water-holes on the range are very few and distant from each other, they are frequented by the bronze-winged pigeons in great numbers.  Mr. Gilbert shot eight of them, and Mr. Roper, John Murphy, and Charley, added to the number, so that we had a fine pigeon supper and breakfast, each having his bird—­a rare occurrence in our expedition.  A few drops of rain fell in the morning.

Nov. 26.—­When we were waiting for our bullocks, four emus came trotting down the slope towards the camp.  Messrs. Gilbert, Roper, Murphy, and Brown, having their horses ready, gave chase, and, after a dangerous gallop, over extremely rocky ground, succeeded, with the assistance of our kangaroo dog, Spring, in securing one of them.  When Charley returned to the camp with the bullocks, he told us that he had found these emus walking amongst the bullocks, and that he had struck one of them with his tomahawk.  On our road to the water, which I had found on my reconnoisance, about seven miles W.N.W., under a still higher range, rising at the right of Robinson’s Creek, we started a herd of eight kangaroos, when our horsemen, assisted by Spring, were again successful in taking one of them.

Nov. 27.—­A thunder-storm during the night, which passed, however, to the other side of the range.  After a gust of wind of short duration, we had some very light showers; so light indeed, as not to interrupt our meat-drying process.