276 POINT PARKER. 



From Point Baylcy,* where we found a native well, 

 the coast trended on one hand N. 73° W., in which 

 direction, at the distance of two and four miles, were 

 small openings in the low mangrove shore ; whilst, 

 on the other, it trended S. 53° E. with inlets two, 

 three, and six miles distant, and a point ten miles 

 and a half from Point Bayley, which was named 

 after the officer in charge of one of the boats, 

 Point Parker. A hillock elevated about thirty feet, 

 which was great for this part of the continent, ren- 

 dered it conspicuous. Like Point Bayley, it is 

 fronted with a rocky ledge, and has a sandy beach 

 on the south side. From Point Parker the coast 

 trended south ten miles, which was the furthest the 

 boats reached ; beyond, it appeared to take a more 

 easterly direction. 



The hillock on Point Parker, afforded Mr. Forsyth 

 a slight view of the interior: it was a vast plain 

 with clumps of small trees interspersed here and 

 there; a growth of gums rose close behind the 

 fringe of mangroves that lined the coast to the south- 

 ward, and in other places constituted the only 

 vegetable production of the country that could be 

 seen. Although there was little that could be called 

 actually interesting in the vast level that stretched 

 away to an indefinite distance from Point^ Parker, 

 yet still, when the reflection presented itself that 



* In lat. lGo35'10"S., and long. G" 55' 30' East of Port 

 Essineton. 



