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walked about 7 mils over a Grassy
Country thinly wooded with She Oak
and scarce another tree, a few miles
further I came to the Banks of
the River which appeared deeper
than where I had landed from
the boat, on both sides the land
open and covered with excellent
Kangaroo Grass – in passing up
the Banks passed over several
rich flats about a mile wide
and 2 or three long not a tree
and covered with Kangaroo
above my Knee's Hundreds of
tons could here be made of the
above Grass - the Land of the
best discription equal to any
in the world, it does not
appear to be ever overflowed –
I followed up this River in all
about 26 miles and found that
on both sides as far as the Eye
to see open Plains with a
few She Oak tree – we did