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 Top of western shoulder of Porrong-u-rup ...E. ½ N.

Cone near the middle of ditto ...E. ¾ S.

Eastward of two middle hummocks of ditto ...E. by S.

Pwakkenbak ...W. by N.½ N.

On the 2nd of May my course was about S.S.E. ½ E. for four miles and a half, to a reedy swamp covered with water, then S.E. for five miles when we came to the channel of a considerable stream, and followed its bank of tolerable soil for some distance, now only containing water in ponds. Mokare said the name of the ground was Yarren-yung-rip. In continuing about S.E. by E., varying however occasionally, and having crossed from the left to the right bank of this channel, I passed two dry channels descending to the north, and after three miles farther march, came on the bed of the stream that I had left, and which I skirted on the right bank, first in the same direction and then indining more to the eastward, for two miles more, during which the banks became high, rather steep, and the surface very stony (claystone). The eastern of the two middle hummocks of Porrong-u-rup bore N., and there was now an actual stream in the channel. I descended to a small meadow, of good soil, to bivouac, along with a party of natives that had accompanied us for the last few miles, and which were the first natives we met with.

May 3d—My course was S.E. for four miles and a half to a small stream running to our right, and at a very short distance into French River; and then S.S.E a mile to the same river, immediately above where we had left the boat. The ground walked over is in general gravelly and sandy, with much mahogany shrub, mahogany and casuarina trees.