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[indecipherable], for there was no appearance of Stratification [indecipherable] few lagoons.I encamped for the night in Lat. 29º 27'
Saturday 4th Feby. Proceeded on the journey at 7 oclock. - These lagoons extended round very much to the Eastward, so that it necessary to deviate some way to the left from my intended course of South - in order to get round this lagoon, the siding or old channel at length toward Southward where the water terminated and I proceeded to the South through [indecipherable] - at length the ground began to slope considerably towards the South and at about 6 miles from where I had slept we made the river [indecipherable] where I had formerly been encamped before I discovered that [indecipherable] I had now left Mt White - The course was as [indecipherable] as ever but the stream was considerably reduced much as that shallow [indecipherable] where the current was perceptible. I [indecipherable] stepped over it - in about this could make no additions of the least consequence to the course I had [indecipherable] and no [indecipherable] of which I had turned. [indecipherable] to find it enlarged by other rivers which [indecipherable] from the North, its general course as far as I had found it having been carved to that side - The tortuous winding of the Gwyder in its course Westward impeded me and obliged me often to turn East but it about [indecipherable] N25E from where I made [indecipherable] There indeed it looked a noble stream as broad as the [indecipherable] - a volume of water greater [indecipherable] of fallen timber X I could not however perceive any account, and I followed the river [indecipherable] about two miles largely to find that the breadth of magnitude might be found bit the [indecipherable] caused at a waterfall where the river was traversed by another [indecipherable] of rock similar to those I had seen higher up - the body of water falling over the rocks