194 HEAD OF COLLIER BAY. 



Island, we continued our southerly route, and ere 

 long saw more land ahead, lying like a blue cloud 

 on the horizon. Ten miles hrouoht us abreast of the 

 hi<:h land we had first seen, and six more to the 

 southern point of a bay. lying on its south-western 

 side, where the duties of the survey again obliged 

 us to land. We considered ourselves now enter- 

 ing once more on the new lands of Australia, as 

 Captain King could scarcely have had even a dis- 

 tant glimpse of this part ; his extreme southern 

 position being abreast of Fresh Water Cove, from 

 whence he describes the view of the coast as follows. 

 " The land to the southward trended deeply in, and 

 appeared to me much broken in its character.'* 

 We therefore naturally looked on every thing here 

 with a greater degree of interest, and with the view 

 of affording time to examine the country, and 

 determine the position of this point by observation, 

 I arranged to pass the night in its vicinity. The 

 view from this station, blighted our hopes of finding 

 an opening leading into the interior from Collier 

 Bay, for we could trace the land all round the head 

 of it, forming high ranges without a single break. 

 This mal-a-propos discovery, materially diminished 

 the pleasure we had before experienced, on first seeing 

 a new part of the continent. About tw^enty miles 

 west from where we stood, were a group of islands, 

 which I was able to identify as those seen from 

 Bathurst Island, near the eastern entrance point of 

 King's Sound ; they appeared to extend about ten 



