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Bay they extend westward almost to York and Toodyay, but east of 
the north line there is but one rock, and that close to the line ; the 
remainder is universally limestone. West ot‘ the line is a strip of 
country 20 to 25 miles in width where the two formations 
seem to be mixed. 80, then, if you have been able to follow me, we 
find my Recent Formation extending from Point Malcolm to Point 
Culver, and between the sea and the cliffs, and again from where the 
cliffs recede from the sea (about 20 miles west of Eyre’s Patch) 
right down to Eucla, bounded again by the sea and cliffs. My New 
Formation extends eastward from a line running north from Israelite, 
how far I cannot say, but far into South Australia ; and I do not know 
how far north, but I am acquainted with it for 150 miles. My Old 
Formation embraces all the country west from the line, and you will 
not forget the strip where the Old and the New appear mixed. 
Speaking in a very general sense, the flora of the New is common to 
South Australia and the flora of the Old to West Australia, while the 
Becent partakes of both, but that flora predominating to which it is 
nearest, that is, from Eyre to Eucla it resembles the South Australian 
flora most, and from Point Culver to Israelite Bay it is closely allied to 
the West Australian flora. If you could travel overland from Israelite 
Bay to Albany as I have done in or about the month of August, I 
believe you would fairly revel in the floral wealth exhibited. I should 
like to tell yoif a little more about my friends, Mount Bagged, Mount 
Emsell, and Mount Dean, but time presses. 
By far the most conspicuous object from sea or land is Mount 
Bugged, or “ Barning-gunvah” with the inland natives, and “ Oarta- 
Currup” with the coastal tribe; it is charted most frequently Mount 
Bagged , which name is far too suggestive to our settlers of the 
tattered appearance of the natives, so it is unanimously styled Mount 
Bugged here. Within a circle, having a diameter of 100 miles, and 
far out at sea, he rears his stately crest, towering, like the ancient 
Israelitish monarch, head and shoulders above his fellows. 
This bill is about three miles in length, running north-east and 
south-west ; it is a few feet short of 2,000 above sea level, but loses 
greatly iu its situation, as about two miles from its base the ground 
rapidly falls, so that the hill rises out of a deep valley, like a dry moat 
round some old castle, or as if, when all was new and soft, the weight 
had pressed the foundations down. The summit is so sharp that one 
can sit astride as on a horse ; both sides are very steep, but especially 
the north-west, which drops away sheer down. About midway down 
the south-east side is a terrace, with but a slight gradieut, after which 
the downward slope is resumed, but not at such a steep incline as in 
the first. There are several gorges on this side, as well as on both ends 
of the hill, in all of which clear, cool, fresh water is found slowly 
trickling ; and in rocky hollows sufficient can be obtained generally to 
water a few horses. Price’s Spring — after Mr. C. D. Price, who 
found and opened it out — is the chief of these, and at first was 
considered to be a spring, but has failed several times since to yield any 
water. At first one takes the rock composing these hills to be granite, 
but on closer inspection it more nearly resembles quartz; and from its 
laminated character, I think it must be mica schist — at any rate, it is 
neither quartz nor granite. The sides of the hill are all covered with 
