Archer, the joint superintendent, had the kindness to take me out kangaroohunting. We continued riding the greater part of the day, but had very bad sport, not seeing a kangaroo, or even a wild dog. It may be long before these animals are altogether exterminated, but their doom is fixed. The thoughtless aboriginal, blinded by these trifling advantages, is delighted at the approach of the white man, who seems predestined to inherit the country of his children. Although having poor sport, we enjoyed a pleasant ride. The woodland is generally so open that a person on horseback can gallop through it. They were diving and playing about the surface of the water, but showed so little of their bodies, that they might easily have been mistaken for waterrats. I afterwards heard that the thermometer out of doors had stood at 119 degs. These undulating but nearly smooth plains are very remarkable in this country, from being absolutely destitute of trees. They support only a thin brown pasture. This is one of the rivers flowing into the vast and scarcely known interior. The line of watershed, which divides the inland streams from those on the coast, has a height of about 3000 feet, and runs in a north and south direction at the distance of from eighty to a hundred miles from the seaside. Scanty as the supply of the water is throughout this district, it becomes still scantier further inland. I met on this occasion, and indeed on all others, a very general and ready civility among the lower orders, which, when one considers what they are, and what they have been, would scarcely have been expected. The next day we passed through large tracts of country in flames, volumes of smoke sweeping across the road. Before arriving here the three things which interested me most were the state of society amongst the higher classes, the condition of the convicts, and the degree of attraction sufficient to induce persons to emigrate. The whole community is rancorously divided into parties on almost every subject. Among those who, from their station in life, ought to be the best, many live in such open profligacy that respectable people cannot associate with them. There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.