SURVEY OF THE COAST. 
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age for seven months in the year, that is to say, during the 
prevalence of the E. and N.E. winds. 
Captain Barker landed on the 21st on this rocky point 
at the northern extremity of this bay. He had, however, 
previously to this, examined the indentation in the coast 
which he had observed from Mount Lofty, and had ascer- 
tained that it was nothing more than an inlet ; a spit of 
sand, projecting from the shore at right angles with it, con- 
cealed the mouth of the inlet. They took the boat to exa- 
mine this point, and carried six fathoms soundings lound 
the head of the spit to the mouth of the inlet, when it 
shoaled to two fathoms, and the landing was observed to 
be bad, by reason of mangrove swamps on either side of it. 
Mr. Kent, 1 think, told me that this inlet was from ten to 
twelve miles long. Can it be that a current setting out 
of it at times, has thrown up the sand-bank that protects 
its mouth, and that trees, or any other obstacle, have hid- 
den its further prolongation from Captain Barker’s notice? 
I have little hope that such is the case, but the remark is 
not an idle one. 
Between this inlet and the one formerly mentioned, a 
small and clear stream was discovered, to which Captain 
Barker kindly gave my name. On landing, the party, 
which consisted of the same persons as the former one, found 
themselves in a valley, which opened direct upon the bay. 
It was confined to the north from the chief range by 
a lateral ridge, that gradually declined towards and ter- 
minated at, the rocky point on which they had landed. 
