#thomas livingstone mitchell

stars appearing
stars visible

Camp on plain          clear     clear     clear
Camp on flat          calm     clear

Camp on track          calm, clear     clear     light clear
Camp on plains          clear     calm 

two meteors, with tails

Camp on Ponds          thunder, nimbus, rain 
Camp Ponds beyond     nimbus, rain  

Camp on Creek          calm, thunder    nimbus, thunder 
Camp on trap hill          calm     cirrus, stratus     cirrus 

a mackerel sky all day

Fish Ponds          calm, clear     (rain in night)
Pigeon Ponds          (rain)     clear 

Camp on branch         rain     rain     rain     steady rain     (moonshine)     clear     clear     calm  
Camp on flooded branch          (calm)    calm

two meteors falling to southward

Camp under hills          clear     calm     thick fog
Camp under zero          overcast, rain     calm, rain 

Sandhill Camp (in desert scrub)          calm, thick fog
Muddy Camp         clear     clear     (clear in the zenith) 

watch stopped
stars appear

No Camp          clear     clear 
No Camp          calm, clear     quite clear   

Extracts from “Comparative journal, kept during the journey, in 1836, and at Parramatta, and other places”, pp.385-411, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions in the Interior of Eastern Australia with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales. University of Sydney Library digital text prepared from the print edition published by T. and W. Boone London 1839, University of Sydney Digital Collection. See also University of California digital scan, HathiTrust.