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ker observed at the time that he thought it probable I had 
mistaken this hill for Mount Lofty, since it shut out the view 
of the lake from him, and therefore he naturally concluded, I 
could not have seen Mount Lofty. I can readily imagine 
such an error to have been made by me, more especially as I 
remember that at the time I was taking bearings in the lake, 
I thought Captain Flinders had not given Mount Lofty, as 
I then conceived it to be, its proper position in longitude. 
Both hills are in the same parallel of latitude. The mis- 
take on my part is obvious. I have corrected it in the 
charts, and have availed myself of the opportunity thus 
afforded me of perpetuating, as far as I can, the name of 
an inestimable companion in Captain Baikei himself. 
Immediately below the point on which they stood, Mr. 
Kent says, a low undulating country extended to the north- 
ward, as far as he could see. It was partly open, and partly 
wooded ; and was every where covered with verdure. It 
continued round to the eastward, and apparently ran down 
southerly, at the opposite base of the mount Barker Range. 
I think there can be but little doubt that my view from the 
S. E., that is, from the lake, extended overthe same ora part 
of the same country. Captain Barker again slept on the sum- 
mit of the range, near a large basin thatlooked like the mouth 
of a crater, in which huge fragments of rocks made a scene 
of the utmost confusion. These rocks were a coarse grey 
granite, of which the higher parts and northern termination 
of the Mount Lofty range are evidently formed ; for Mr. 
Kent remarks that it superseded the schistose formation at 
