2298 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
as before, towards Table Hill, which we reached 
about twenty minutes before ten, and pitched our 
tents at the foot of it. Our route was, during this 
march, over ground of the same nature as that 
which we passed in the forenoon, with this differ- 
ence, however, that it was much more difficult to 
travel over, for it is so completely saturated with 
water, that we frequently sank into it up to the 
ankle, and sometimes farther, and even in the 
driest parts of it we went down an inch or two; in 
short, we avoided the black ground to-day as much 
as we sought it ten days ago. We observed, 
during this day’s march, a considerable difference 
in the mineralogical character of the country, for 
instead of the whitish sandstone that prevailed 
so abundantly from Liddon’s Gulf to the north 
side of the island, we found that the kind of 
stone we generally met with had a greenish tinge, 
and was of a loose or disintegrated texture, like the 
sandstone in the ravines near Winter Harbour. 
Small pieces of granite, quartz, and _ felspar, 
were pretty frequently met with, and when we 
got within a couple of miles of Table Hill, we 
began to observe limestone. Vegetation is now 
in a very flourishing condition, the sorrel is far 
advanced, and there is a species of saxifrage 
(oppositifolia) beginning to blossom. | 
Thursday, 15th. — After taking a few hours’ rest, 
we all turned to (at two o’clock) to build a monu- 
ment on the top of Table Hill*, which we finished 
* As this hill is a conspicuous object at a very considerable 
distance, its geographical position deserves to be mentioned. 
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