3 9.58 Still reddish ironbark country; cypress recognizable in places. At rare intervals (2 seen so far) small patches pale grey sand. All this country since Rona carrying little grass. 10.5 Ironbark and a rather brownish Eucalyptus (50-50) in ridgy very open S.F. Soil paler red. Still just above broken cloud field. 10.9 Over bare reddish plain 3/4 mile ??? with long grey sand ridges (S.F.) close on W side of it. Over all this ridgy S.F. area practically since Rona little grass. Here ground seems bare but for greyish patches (Chenopods)? 10.13 Frequent grey patches in a country of reddish sand. Grey soil bare or with S.F. or pale green dense stands of Cypress(?) 10.15 Have passed cloud area. Air rather bumpy. 10.25 Charleville. Lunch. Prosperous clean town whose chief botanical feature is the avenues of cropped white cedars which line its streets. 12.41 Left Charleville. This part timbered by cypress and mulga. Soil red sand of various shades. Some large greyish dry-pans. 1.0 Following up Ward River. Strip of timber 1/4 mile wide with up to a mile of sparsely timbered dry-pan and perhaps some Mitchell grass plain both sides. Erosion very conspicuous along river banks. 1.10 Over ridgy red sand country drained by small creeks flowing to ward. Claypans numerous. Some extensive open downs amongst generally timbered country. 1.20 Same class country with many rocky hills more or less grouped individually over area of a few square miles. On Langlo tributaries (?) 1.21 Beginning of belt of fairly well timbered downs with small twisty creeks carrying conspicuous strips of dark timber. Mostly downs. 1.28 Generally timbered again. 1.34 Over feeders of Barcoo (?) Red sand ridges, dry pans and grassy hollows. Grou Ground largely bare but what grass there is is green. 1.37 Over a line of rocky hills, dark timbered. 1.38 Begin wide expanse of very sparsely timbered red sand ridges, both timber and winding creeks.