MOUNT SERLE. 
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dinner, I took a long walk up the watercourse to 
search for more, I was unable to find any either in 
the main channel or its branches. The grass was 
abundant and good. The latitude of the camp I 
ascertained to be 30° 27' S. 
August 27. — Having risen and breakfasted very 
early, I took Mr. Scott and a native boy with me, 
and steered for a very high hill with rather a 
rounded summit, bearing from our camp E. 
17° S. This I named Mount Serle, in accor- 
dance with a request made to me before my depar- 
ture, by the Governor, that I would name some 
remarkable feature in the country after Mr. Serle. 
This was the most prominent object we had hitherto 
met with; among high ranges it appeared the 
highest, and from a height above our present en- 
campment, it had been selected by us as the most 
likely point from which to obtain a view to the 
eastward. 
The elevation of this hill could not be less than 
three thousand feet above the level of the sea ; but 
unfortunately, the injury my barometer had sus- 
tained in the escape of some of the mercury, and my 
being unable to fill it again properly, quite precluded 
me from ascertaining the height with accuracy. 
In our route to Mount Serle, we observed another 
hill, rather more to the northward, seemingly of as 
great an altitude as Mount Serle itself ; this was not 
situate in the Mount Serle range, nor had it been 
seen by us in our view from the height above the 
depot. 
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