Journal Of An Overland Expedition In Australia, By Ludwig Leichhardt




















































































































 -  We went about three miles farther down the
creek, and encamped in the dense shade of a wide spreading Rock - Page 465
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We Went About Three Miles Farther Down The Creek, And Encamped In The Dense Shade Of A Wide Spreading Rock Box, A Tree Which I Mentioned A Few Days Since.

From this place I started with Brown in one direction, and Charley in another, to find a passage through the labyrinth of rocks.

After a most fatiguing scramble up and down rocky gullies, we again found ourselves at the brink of that beautiful valley, which lay before us like a promised land. We had now a more extensive view of its eastern outline, and saw extending far to our right a perpendicular wall, cut by many narrow fissures, the outlet of as many gullies; the same wall continued to the left, but interrupted by a steep slope; to which we directed our steps, and after many windings succeeded in finding it. It was indeed very steep. Its higher part was composed of sandstone and conglomerate; but a coarse-grained granite, with much quartz and felspar, but little mica and accidental hornblende, was below. The size of its elements had rendered it more liable to decomposition, and had probably been the cause of the formation of the slope. In the valley, the creek murmured over a pebbly bed, and enlarged from time to time, into fine sheets of water. We rested ourselves in the shade of its drooping tea-trees; and, observing another slope about two miles farther, went to examine it, but finding that its sandstone crest was too steep for our purpose, we returned to mark a line of road from the first slope to our camp.

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