being nearly four feet deep in the shallowest places; it is only on an average about fifty links broad, and well sheltered by overhanging box trees.  The temperature of the water on the morning of the 7th November, at six o’clock, was 68 degrees; the temperature of the air at the same time being 50.5 degrees.  Our camp at this place is indicated by a box tree marked B over LII in square, the geographical position of which is by account 28 degrees 26 minutes 9 seconds south latitude, and longitude 143 degrees 0 minutes east.  In proceeding from here in a north-north-easterly direction up the course of the creek, or rather of the water, for the creek is again lost on the plains for five or six miles, we passed the southernmost point of a prominent sandstone range, the nearest portion of which lay about a mile and a half to the westward.  At about nine miles we again touched the creek, where it is about three chains broad.  The banks are firm and shelving, from ten to twelve feet above the water, and lined with box, acacias, some large gums, gigantic marshmallows, polygonum, etc.  In the creek there is abundance of fish, and the ducks and other waterfowl on it are numberless.  From what we have seen of the blacks, I should say the population cannot be far short of 150, and it might be considerably more.  From here we proceeded in an east-north-easterly direction along the west bank of this fine waterhole, and at two and a half miles found it begin rapidly to decrease in breadth, and a little further on there was nothing but a few small stony watercourses traversing a dense box forest:  at this point there is a level bed of sandstone pebbles, close to and over a part of which the creek flows.  The blacks have here gone to the trouble of making paths for themselves, along which we turned off from the creek on a north-north-easterly course, and at about three miles, coming on earthy plains, with no signs of water ahead, we again turned in to the creek and camped at a small waterhole.  From here the line of river timber continues in a north-easterly direction.  To the west and north-north-west is a line of sandstone ranges running off in the same direction.  The land in the immediate vicinity of the creek on the west side is very poorly grassed all the way up from where we crossed it:  that on the east side appeared to be better.

I think there can scarcely be a doubt but that this creek is the lower portion of the Warrego River, although I believe that its main supply of water is obtained from the adjoining ranges, which send down innumerable creeks into the flats through which it flows.

Some latitude observations at Camp 53, (the furthest point to which we traced the creek) placed us in 28 degrees 16 minutes 40 seconds south; our latitude, by account, being 28 degrees 17 minutes 8 seconds, and longitude, 143 degrees 18 minutes east.  On Thursday, November 8th, we left Wright’s Creek with the intention of crossing the ranges to Cooper’s Creek.  We found the land as we approached the hills well grassed, and in some places densely timbered:  it is intersected by numerous watercourses with deep sandy channels, in most of which there seemed little chance of finding water.  We camped at a waterhole in McDonagh’s Creek; the spot is indicated by a gum tree marked B over LIV within square.