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ceased to flow a short distance beyond our crossing 
place. 
The country below us, like that through which 
the Rocky river took its -course, was open and of 
an inferior description, but I have no doubt that by 
tracing the stream upwards, towards its source 
among the ranges, a good and well watered country 
would be found ; I ascertained the latitude by a 
meridian altitude at Crystal brook to be 33° 18' 7" S. 
The hills on the opposite side of Spencer’s Gulf 
were now plainly visible, and one which appeared to 
be inland, I took to be the middle Back mountain 
of Flinders ; between our camp and the eastern shores 
of the gulf, the land was generally low, with a good 
deal of scrub upon it, and nearer the shores appeared 
to be swampy, and subject to inundation by the 
tides. 
June 29. — Upon moving from our camp this morn- 
ing we commenced following under Flinders range. 
From Crystal brook, the hills rise gradually in ele- 
vation as they trend to the northward, still keeping 
their western slopes almost precipitous to the plains, 
out of which they appear to rise abruptly. Our 
course was much embarrassed by the gullies and 
gorges emanating from the hills, in some of which 
the crossing place was not very good, and in all 
the horses got much shaken, so that when we 
arrived at a large watercourse defined by gum trees, 
and in which was a round hole of water that had 
been on a former occasion called by me “ The Deep 
