340 HALIFAX BAY. 



It will thus be seen that there is a northerly dip in the 

 Cordillera of 3000 feet in IS degrees of latitude. 



The great height of this range, and the extreme 

 abruptness of its eastern face, where no waters are 

 thrown off, renders it more than probable that on 

 the western side there is land of great fertility. 

 Whatever waters originate on its summit and slopes, 

 must flow towards the interior, and there give rise 

 to rivers emptying themselves into the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria, or by first forming lagoons, feed streams of 

 some magnitude even, during their overflow. It is 

 the general opinion of every voyager who has sailed 

 along the coast of Halifax Bay, that it is the most 

 interesting portion of the north-east side of the 

 continent; as, combining the several facts which we 

 have above given, we have every reason to believe 

 that the discovery of fertile and therefore valuable 

 land, will one day reward the labours of the explorer. 



Nothing was seen bv us of the San Antonio reef, 

 laid down in the charts as frontino- the Palm Isles ; 

 but this was subsequently accounted for by Captain 

 Stanley, who found that it was sixteen miles north 

 of its supposed position, being in lat. 18° 17' S,, 

 and twenty-four miles distant from the nearest land, 

 Hillock Point. 



This fact is the more satisfactory and important 



Krakow, over the tomb of the patriot Kosciusko, that although in 

 a foreign country, on foreign ground, but amongst a free people, 

 who appreciate freedom and its votai'ies, I could not refrain from 

 giving it the name of Mount Kosciusko." 



