Historical Records of Port Phillip the First Annals of the Colony of Victoria
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— At 6 we breakfasted, ^-past 7 Capt. Merthow and self went a shooting 15 miles up the river. Mr. Brown went up the mountains a botanizing. The river took these directions, where the falls of water were : — 1, fall reach, E. To AV. ; 2d. , from S. E. To N. W. ; 3rd reach, S. -W. ; 4th, W. S. W. ; 5th reach, N. B. W. We walkd on the west side of the river ; the hills, &c. , very high. "When one side of the river was hilly the|other a vally, and it continued so for more than 40 miles from the cam...p, where there was an extensive plain of very few trees. We see kangaroos, emews, pigeons, and parrotts. At ^-past 4 we return to the hut we left in the morn. During our walk we a great many native hutts and the fires they made ; no doubt they see us. In the eve the natives made a fire near where we slep, on the west side of the river. C. Sign, Hogan. Thursday, 8. A. M. — At 5 rain, with hard squalls. We struck our canvass and saild for Herdsman's Cove, where we reachd about 10 and breakfasted ; the land appeard not very good.
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