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THE MUNDY. 
I have frequently found water in some small branch 
or gorge, that had appeared too insignificant, or 
too uninviting to require to be explored. This I 
named The Mundy, after my friend, Alfred 
Mundy, Esq., now the Colonial Secretary of South 
Australia. 
Early this morning, I took Mr. Scott with me, to 
examine The Mundy, leaving the overseer to pro- 
ceed with the party. 
After entering the hills a short distance, we found 
in the bed of the Mundy a strongly running stream, 
connecting several reaches of waters, upon which 
many black ducks were sailing about. This 
appeared to be one of the finest and best streams we 
had yet discovered, although the water was slightly 
impregnated with alum. After the watercourse left 
the hills, the surface water all disappeared, the 
drainage being then absorbed by the light sandy 
soil of the plains, and this had invariabty been the 
case with all the waters emanating from Flinders 
range. 
Crossing some stony ridges, w r e followed the party 
up the large watercourse, which I had traced so far 
on the 5th of August, since named the Burr, after 
the Deputy Surveyor- general of the colony, and at 
nineteen miles halted early in the afternoon, at 
some springs rising among rocks and rushes in 
its bed. The water was very brackish, though 
drinkable, but did not extend far on either side of 
the spot we were encamped at, and when after 
