desert with red-brown patches in distance. 8.54 Dry creek below with few clumps of timber. 9.3-5 Big patch dark mixed timber. 9.6 River of yellowish water; lignum (Brunette 9.14 At Brunette. Brunette aerodrome carries some stunted butter grass and very small herbs. Flies bad. No hoppers. 9.26 Left B. Very big lignum hole yellow water. Good house and out buildings (Alga- roba trees). Big grove both mixed Eucalyptus (box) and Acacia spp. follow creek to distance a mile or so both sides; 3-4 inch rain at B. this year. Soil brown, full of angular pebbles and ribbonstone, etc. 9.37 More attractive country since leaving Brunette. Increasing large belts and bodies of timberboth sides, good deal of green in grass. Soil of timbered country red-brown. Grass country and dry pans near yellow-brown. Beyond 9.37 country generally thinly timbered. 9.42 Nearly all scattered timber and spinifex; strips etc., pale plain (a white barked gum C. with Triodia) Some big grey dry pans. 9.49 Very dry. Grass of plains dead grey. 9.52 Dropped mail Anthony's Lagoon. Big area of plains here, tinged green where not overtrampled. Dark lines of timber on both horizons. 10.0 To left windmill and red cattle at a small timbered patch. Also great tree- less plain with rare thin patches begins. To right 4 or 5 miles almost unbroken timber to horizon. 10.4 Over narrow creek with thin timber and narrow holes yellow or green water. 10.10 To left 3/5ths dry grass plain and 2/5ths thin timber patches. To right beyond 4-5 miles nearly all timber. 10.16 Abundant yellow water showing in small creeks both sides and country green. 10.18 crossed creek going right. Red timbered ridges (50-50) contrast with green plains . Good season here. 10.27 Big blue bush swamp? 2 miles to left over untimbered yellow lignum, narrow creek.