Referring back to a previous remark, I would observe that the Murray river is characterised by bold and perpendicular¹ cliffs of different shades of yellow colour, varying from a light hue² to a deep ochre. These cliffs rise abruptly³ from the water to the height of 250 and occasionally 300 feet. They occur first on one side of the river, and then on the other, there being an open or a lightly-timbered flat on the opposite side, with a line of trees almost invariably round it, especially along the river. These flats are backed, at uncertain distances, by the fossil formation, as by a natural inclosure — sometimes it rises perpendicularly⁴ from the flats, but more generally assumes the character of sloping hills. The cliffs occasionally extend, like a wall, along the river for two or three miles, and look exceedingly well; but their constant recurrence⁵, at length fatigues⁶ the eye. At the point at which we had now arrived this remarkable⁷ formation ceases, or, as we are going up the river, I should perhaps be more correct if I said, begins. Above it a long line of hills, broken by deep and rugged⁸ stony⁹ gullies, and with steep sides, extends to the eastward¹⁰ (that also being the upward course of the river). On gaining the crest¹¹ of these hills we found ourselves, as usual, on a flat table land, notwithstanding the broken faces of the hills themselves. There was only a narrow space between them, and a low thick brush of

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