Spencer's Gulph] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
Two miles below the place where the observations for the time isoa. 
i-ii i March. 
keeper were taken, was a small cliff of reddish clay on the western T hurs. u. 
shore; and being near it on our return, when the sun was approach- 
ing the meridian, I landed to observe the latitude. It was 32 0 27' 56" 
south ; so that the termination of the gulph may be called in 32 0 24,^-' 
without making a greater error than half a mile. Mount Brown 
bore from thence S. 8o£° E., and its latitude will therefore be 32 0 30^' 
south ; the longitude deduced from bearings and the time keepers 
on board, is 138 0 of east. 
Our return to the ship was a good deal retarded by going after 
the black swans and ducks amongst the flats. The swans were all 
able to fly, and would not allow themselves to be approached ; but 
some ducks of two or three different species were shot, and also several 
sea pies or red bills. Another set of bearings was taken on the 
western shore, and at ten in the evening we reached the ship, where 
Mr. Brown and his party had not been long arrived. The 
ascent, to Mount Brown had proved to be very difficult, besides 
having to walk fifteen miles on a winding course, before reaching 
the foot ; by perseverance, however, they gained the top at five on 
the first evening, but were reduced to passing the night without 
water ; nor was any found until they had descended some distance 
on the following day. The view from the top of Mount Brown 
was very extensive, its elevation being not less than three thousand 
feet ; but neither rivers nor lakes could be perceived, nor any thing 
of the sea to the south-eastward. In almost every direction the eye 
traversed over an uninterruptedly flat, woody country ; the sole ex- 
ceptions being the ridge of mountains extending north and south, and 
the water of the gulph to the south-westward. 
Mr. Brown found the stone of this ridge of craggy mountains 
to be arg illaceous, similar to that of the flat-topped land where I 
had taken bearings on the west side of the inlet. It is reddish, 
smooth, close-grained, and rather heavy. Bushes and some small 
trees grow in the hollows of the rising hills ; and between their 
