CROSS ANOTHER STREAM.
July 12.
At two miles and a half from the spot where we had slept we crossed
another stream flowing west-north-west which I named the Small-burn.
Beyond it the ground was good and grassy, but at this season very soft,
so that the draught was most laborious for the cattle. At seven miles we
crossed a wet flat [...]

June 29.
THE PARTY QUITS THE MURRAY.
The party moved forward in the direction of Mount Hope and, leaving it on
the left, we continued towards Pyramid Hill where we encamped at about
three-quarters of a mile from its base. We were under no restraint now in
selecting a camp from any scarcity of water or grass; for all hollows [...]

FOLLOWED BY THE NATIVES.
June 1.
The country to the eastward seemed so dry and scrubby that I could not
hope in returning to join Mr. Stapylton’s party or reach the Murray by
any shorter route than that of our present track; and I therefore
postponed any further survey back towards the junction of the Darling and
Murray until I should [...]

May 21.
A good passageway having been made, we crossed the watercourse and
proceeded towards Lake Stapylton as I understood that there we might
easily recross. I was informed by Burnett that when the journey commenced
this morning the gins in the bush had not responded to Piper’s call until
after such a search as convinced him that both intended [...]

May 20.
This morning the weather appeared beautifully serene; and the barometer had risen higher than I had ever seen it on this side of the mountains.
Mr. Stapylton, who left the camp in the morning, returned about sunset after exploring the creek through a very tortuous course, more or less to the northward of west. He [...]

May 6.
The chief of the new tribe had ordered a man to accompany us as guide, but after going a mile or two he fell back and left us; and we were thus compelled again to depend on the information of the gin for the situation of water. I regretted exceedingly the defection of this [...]

April 17.
NORTH ARM OF THE LACHLAN. We proceeded along the right bank of the Lachlan, crossing at five miles a small arm or ana-branch* which had been seen higher up diverging from the river, and flowing towards the north-west by Mr. Oxley. The local name of it is Yamorrima. Beyond this watercourse Cannil plains [...]

ASCEND GOULBURN RANGE.
The morning was beautifully clear and I set out for the summit of  Goulburn range, named Yerrarar, fourteen miles distant from the camp. The  country we rode over was so thinly wooded that the hill was visible  nearly the whole way. The soil was good and firmer than the common  surface of the [...]

The sky had continued overcast although no rain fell after the evening of  the 13th. This day however the wind changed from north-west to west and  the sky became clear.
PIPER OBTAINS A GIN.
The surveying party returned from the lake by midday; and with it came  also Piper, my aboriginal interpreter, who had gone there chiefly [...]

The night had been unusually warm, so much so that the thermometer stood  during the whole of it at 76 degrees (the usual noonday heat) and so  parching was the air that no one could sleep. A hot wind blew from the  north-east in the morning, and the barometer fell 4/10 of an inch; there  [...]