be the same that Sturt crossed in coming across from Evelyn Plains.  In going over to Wannoggin, a distance of fourteen miles, I found the plains everywhere intersected by small creeks, most of them containing water, which was sheltered from the sun by the overhanging branches of drooping shrubs, tall marshmallows, and luxuriant salt bushes; and at some of them were hundreds of ducks and waterhens.  When crossing some flats of light-coloured clay soil, near Wannoggin, and which were covered with box timber, one might almost fancy himself in another planet, they were so arid and barren.  The Wannoggin Swamp is at present dry, but I believe it is generally a fine place for water.  Birds are very numerous about there, and I noticed that by far the greater portion of the muslka trees (a species of acacia) contained nests, either old or new.

At about twenty miles from Wonominta, in a north-north-easterly direction, there is a fine creek, with a waterhole about a mile long, which we passed; and Mr. Wright tells me there is a larger one further up the creek.

The land in the neighbourhood of the Torowoto Swamp is very fine for pastoral purposes.  It is rather low and swampy, and therefore better for cattle than for sheep.  There appears to be a gradual fall in the land from Totoynya to this place, amounting to about 500 feet.  This swamp can scarcely be more than 600 feet above the sea, if so much.  The highest ground over which we have passed has been in the Mount Doubeny Ranges, from Langawirra to Bengora, and that appears to be about 1000 feet above the sea.  Mount Bengora is, by barometrical observation, about 300 feet above the camp at Bengora, but it is not the highest peak in the range by perhaps fifty or sixty feet; and I think we may assume that the highest peak does not exceed 1,500 feet above the sea.

Meteorogical.—­We have been very fortunate up to the present time as regards the weather, both in having had plenty of water and moderate temperatures.  The thermometer has never risen above 88.5 degrees in the shade, and has seldom been below 50 degrees, the average daily range having been from 58 to 80 degrees.  During our stay on the Darling, the temperature of the water varied very slightly, being always between 65 and 67 degrees.  The winds have generally been light, frequently going all round the compass in the course of the day; but in any case it has almost invariably fallen calm after sunset.  Cirri and cirrostratus clouds have been very prevalent during the day, and cumulostratus during the night.

Wells and Creeks.—­The temperature of the water in the well at Kokriega, at ten A.M.  October 21, was 58.5 degrees, being exactly the same as the temperature of the air.  That of the water between the rocks, at Bilpa, at five P.M. on the same day, was 64 degrees, the temperature of air being 75 degrees.  The temperature of the water in the sand at Naudtherungee, at seven A.M. on the 26th, was 59.5 degrees, that of the air being 62 degrees.  At five A.M.  October 28, the temperature of the water in Wonominta Creek was 63. 5 degrees, that of the air being 62 degrees.