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fatigued. At the puddle, two teal were seen, which 
indicated the existence of a larger body of water 
somewhere in the neighbourhood, but our efforts to 
find it were unsuccessful. 
August 3. — Crossing very heavy sandy ridges, we 
passed at intervals one or two dry watercourses, and 
the beds of some small dry lakes among the sandy 
ridges, in one of which was a little rain water which 
appeared to be rapidly drying up. Watering the 
horses we moved on for Termination Hill, but the 
nature of the country had been so unfavourable, that 
the pack-horse was knocked up, and I was obliged to 
halt four miles short of our intended destination, and 
where there was but poor feed for the animals. After 
dinner I walked to Termination Hill and ascended 
it. Like all the others I had recently examined, it 
was composed principally of quartz, ironstone and a 
kind of slaty rock ; the low hills in front exhibiting 
the grey limestone, whilst patches of gum scrub were 
observable in many places. From the summit of 
Termination Hill, Lake Torrens bore W. 20° S. but 
the view was obstructed by intervening sand ridges, 
the elevated land on the opposite shore of the lake 
still appeared to continue, and was visibly further 
north than the lake itself, which, as I observed, was 
partially shut out by the ridges. To the north were 
low broken hills similar to those around me, but less 
elevated, and immediately under these hills to the 
westward, were heavy red sandy ridges, such as we 
had crossed during the day. To the eastward and 
