Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 490 pages of information about Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 490 pages of information about Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2.

WARRANARY.

Of the Mount Granard range I could see and intersect only that remarkable cape-like point which was also the high land visible to the westward from Mount Granard itself, being named Warranary by Barney.  Closer to the summit on which I stood were various ranges besides that of which it was the highest point, but even this was not, strictly speaking, a range, for it consisted on the southward of different masses, separated by portions of low, level country.

A NEW CORREA.

I recognised many of my stations, such as Mount Cunningham, Bolloon, Hurd’s Pic, Mount Granard, etc. and having taken all the angles I could with the theodolite, and gathered some specimens of a curious new correa,* and a few bulbs of a pink-coloured amaryllis which grew on the summit,** we descended and, just as it became quite dark, reached the camp where I found that the men had arrived with Mr. Stapylton’s light cart, although his own horse, having strayed at Cordowe, did not accompany it.

(Footnote.  Resembling C. rupicola of Cunningham, but with larger and shorter flowers, and differently shaped leaves.  Young shoots were covered with a white down which easily rubbed off.  C. leucoclada, Lindley manuscripts; ramulis albo-tomentosis gracilibus, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusissimis petiolatis supra glabris scabriusculis subtus tomentosis, floribus subsessilibus, corolla campanulata quadrifida, calyce cupulari truncato.)

(**Footnote.  Calostemma carneum, Lindley manuscripts; foliis...tubo perianthii limbo subaequali, corona truncata dentibus sterilibus nullis, umbellis densis, pedicellis articulatis exterioribus longioribus.  Flowers pink.)

CHAPTER 3.3.

North arm of the Lachlan. 
Quawys. 
Wallangome. 
Wild cattle. 
Ascend Moriattu. 
Leave the Lachlan to travel westward. 
No water. 
Natives from Warranary. 
Course down the Lachlan resumed. 
Extensive ride to the westward. 
Night without water. 
Continue westward, and south-west. 
Sandhills. 
Atriplex. 
Deep cracks in the earth. 
Search for the Lachlan. 
Cross various dry channels. 
Graves. 
Second night without water. 
Native tumulus. 
Reedy swamp with dead trees. 
Route of Mr. Oxley. 
Dry bed of the Lachlan. 
Find at length a large pool. 
Food of the natives discovered. 
Horses knock up. 
Scenery on the Lachlan. 
Character of the different kinds of trees. 
Return to the party. 
Dead body found in the water. 
Ascend Burradorgang. 
A rainy night without shelter. 
A new guide. 
Native dog. 
Branches of the Lachlan. 
A native camp. 
Children. 
A widow joins the party as guide. 
Horse killed. 
The Balyan root. 
How gathered. 
Reach the united channel of the Lachlan. 
No water. 
Natives’ account of the rivers lower down. 

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