and last night with every appearance of a wet day, went a short distance thro the wood to a Stream of water this like several others lately seen, is not in such deep gullies as they are at N. P. consequently if required could be made to overflow a great extent of fine level land for water meadows. The timber in this locality do not present such a variety as the bush more immediately adjoining the Town. We have not seen any white pine nor for the last 2 days any black birch honey suckle or iron wood. From the immense quantity of pigs we imagine to be hereabouts, a very lucrative living might be picked up if the Government would not recognize the native claims to the Pigs, by starting a salting establishment. A difficulty might at first present itself in the event of a road but we are quite sure from the nature of the country we have passed thro that if a person undertook it who had only an ordinary notion of road making, that an excellent road from the Devon line to our present situation could be made. The fern trees in this neighbourhood cannot be considered so fine as they are near the Town, the Niko is however much finer the stems being particularly high and beautifully marked. Tower Koi Koi and Remo are the prevailing woods in this locality. 12 P.M. Having all agreed that it would not be adviseable to move, the tent to-day, charged the gun with a brace of bullets and went a considerable way to the East and West with a view to ascertain the extent of the beautiful Country we are now in. It now commenced to rain more heavily and was obliged to return to the tent. The rain continuing to fall in torrents during the whole of the night - 8 O'Clock A.M. The weather clearing, on examining the soil found it not so deep as some before noticed, 12 P.M. struck the Tent and took a S.W. course passing over several