2.10 All decidedly hilly, weathered country. Some mine dumps. 2.12 Hills rising to perhaps 1000 feet. 2.14 Ridgy country. 2.15 1/2 mile to left isolated mountain (granite) with lot of bare rock on top and some dark trees (monsoon forest) on E side. Much red grass, contrasting with general green. 2.20 Rather narrow grassy plain 2-3 miles trending N or NE. 2.33 Have left high hills well behind. Now landscape of irregular green treeless or thinly timbered flats and contrasting reddish ridges (red grass or soil). Well watered with swamps and creeks. Have seen no settlement since leaving hills and only one tailing yard (cattle) 2.38 Crossed big river flanked with lagoons (Adelantha) Some tropic storms. 2.43 Over a dark 10 mile pitch of rain forest at head of a small creek. Coast in view. 2.47 Some plains (marine) in view behind coast some few miles. Have seen only the one patch of rain forest. 2.52 Lower end Darwin inlet 4 miles to left. Timber denser as we near coast. Soil reddish where exposed (hard clay pans? or laterite?) 2.53 Many inlets and mangrove creeks. 3.0 Darwin. A subsiding coast incised with deep inlets in which are some small protruding islands and a few spots of bare rock. Abrupt crumbling cliffs of vari- colored pale metamorphic sediments rising from perhaps 10 to 40 feet above tide, so far as I have seen. A steep scarped ridge of same rock between mentworks??? and town, rising another 40-60 feet above the present plain, might be remnant of a former coast line. Mangroves (seemingly Avicinnia sp D) follow the inlets and creeks some miles inland. Plant cover at Darwin, low to high grass, open savannah forest. Grass most prominent about town a tall Sorghum sp. (fulverm?) 8-9 feet high. Trees--figs, Ternicki???, Dagua and Alstonia etc. about edge of soft swamps and creeks at town. These the nearest approach to rain forest I have seen.