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pearance of the shoals at low water having convinced me 
of the impracticability of it, I determined on an excur- 
sion along the sea-shore to the southward and eastward, in 
anxious hopes that it would be a short one; for as we 
had had a series of winds from the S.W. which had now 
changed to the opposite quarter, I feared we should have 
to pull across the lake in our way homewards. I left the 
camp therefore at an early hour, in company with Mr. 
M'Leay and Fraser, and at day-break arrived opposite to 
the sand-bank I have mentioned. Between us and it the 
entrance into the back water ran. The passage is at all 
periods of the tide rather more than a quarter of a mile in 
width, and is of sufficient depth for a boat to enter, espe- 
cially on the off side ; but a line of dangerous breakers in 
the bay will always prevent an approach to it from the 
sea, except in the calmest weather, whilst the bay itself 
will always be a hazardous place for any vessels to enter 
under any circumstances. 
Having, however, satisfactorily concluded our pursuit, 
we retraced our steps to the camp, and again took the 
following bearings as we left the beach, the strand trend- 
ing E. S.E. 3 E. : — 
Kangaroo Island, S. E. angle. ... S. 60° W. 
Low rocky point of Cape Jarvoise S. 81° W. 
Round Hill in centre of Range . . S. 164° W. 
Camp, distant one mile S. 171° W. 
Mount Lofty, distant forty miles N. 9° E. 
Before setting sail, a bottle was deposited between four 
and five feet deep in a mound of soft earth and shells, close 
to the spot on which the tent had stood, which contained 
