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A native had carved a representation of the foot of an emu in the bark of a gum-tree; and he had performed it with all the exactness of a good observer. It was the first specimen of the fine arts we had witnessed in our journey. August 4. We travelled about ten miles west-north-west, over scrubby ridges, plains, and box-flats.
The ascent to Rotas is over the dry hills of limestone, covered with a scrubby brushwood, to a crest where are the first rude and ruined defences. The limestone is succeeded by the sandstone cliff cut into steps, which led from ledge to ledge and gap to gap, well guarded with walls and an archway of solid masonry.
It was as scrubby and dingy as ever, and as eager and quick as ever, and he could see nothing lurking in it that was at all expressive of a latent mockery that had seemed to strike upon his ear in the voice. 'Now, said Pancks, 'to put this business on its own footing, it's not my proprietor's. 'Do you refer to Mr Casby as your proprietor? Pancks nodded. 'My proprietor. Put a case.
In the course of this day we travelled across the heads of two bays, which were indistinctly visible through the woods. April 9. The first three miles of our route this day lay over sandy scrubby plains; we saw however a good country to the eastward.
A little digging has recently been done, and things of interest have been found; but discovery on a wide scale is still to be attempted. Lenormant praises the landscape hereabouts as of "incomparable beauty"; unfortunately I saw it in a sunless day, and at unfavourable moments I was strongly reminded of the Essex coast grey, scrubby fiats, crossed by small streams, spreading wearily seaward.
Which is all drained away in our time, yet traceable by the studious: quaggy congeries of sluices and fish-ponds, no road through them except on intricate dams; have scrubby thickets about the border; this also is very strong ground, if Weissenfels thought of defence there. Which Weissenfels does not, but only of attack.
It was nearly 30 miles from the junction of the Staaten, the country scrubby, thickly timbered, and very broken. Total distance 38 miles. 'November' 16. The whole party was moved down Cockburn Creek, that being the only practicable route. It was the alternative of poor grass or no grass. The trend of the creek was about N.W. by W. At twelve miles they encamped on its bed.
As yet no very great change had taken place in the country; it was still scrubby and rocky, but the surface stone now consisted of a cream-coloured limestone of a fine compact character, and full of shells.
The flats of the Darling are certainly of great extent, but their verdure reached no farther than the immediate precincts of the river at this part of its course. Their soil is a tenacious clay, blistered and rotten. These flats extend to uncertain distances from the river, and vary in breadth from a quarter of a mile to two miles or more. Beyond them the country is sandy, desolate, and scrubby.
Changed the bearing to 60 degrees for three miles to a fine plain covered with grass. Halted. No water. There are some high hills to the east-north-east, to which I have now changed my course, and which I conclude to be the Freeling range. Our journey to-day has been through very scrubby and sandy country, especially the last fifteen miles.
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