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terminations. This line will cutoff a space whose greatest 
breadth will be 55 miles, whose length from north to south 
will be 75, and whose surface exceeds 7 millions of acres ; 
from which if we deduct 2 millions for the unavailable 
hills, we shall have 5 millions of acres of land, of rich soil, 
upon which no scrub exists, and whose most distant 
points are accessible, through a level country on the one 
hand, and by water on the other. The southern extremity 
of the ranges can be turned by that valley through which 
Mr. Kent returned to the schooner, after Captain Barker’s 
death. It is certain, therefore, that this valley not only se- 
cures so grand a point, but also presents a level line of com- 
munication from the small bay immediately to the north of 
the cape, to the rocky point of Encounter Bay, at both of 
which places there is safe anchorage at different periods of 
the year. 
The only objection that can be raised to the occupation 
of this spot, is the want of an available harbour. Yet it 
admits of great doubt whether the contiguity of Kangaroo 
Island to Cape Jervis, (serving as it does to break the 
force of the prevailing winds, as also of the heavy swell that 
would otherwise roll direct into the bay,) and the fact of its 
possessing a safe and commodious harbour, certainly at an 
available distance, does not in a great measure remove the 
objection. Certain it is that no port, with the exception 
of that on the shores of which the capital of Australia is 
situated, offers half the convenience of this, although it be 
detached between three and four leagues from the main. 
On the other hand it would appear, that there is no place 
