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powerful telescope I could discover fragments of 
table land similar to those I had seen in the neigh- 
bourhood of the lake in that direction. At N. 8° 
W. a very small haycock-looking hill might be 
seen above the level waste, probably the last of the 
low spurs of Flinders range to the north. To the 
north-east, the view was obstructed by a high 
range immediately in front of us, but to the east 
and as far as E. 13° S. we saw through a break 
in the hills, a broad glittering belt in appearance, 
like the bed of a lake, but apparently dry. 
The ranges seemed to continue to the eastward 
of Mount Serle for about fifteen miles, and then 
terminated abruptly in a low, level, scrubby-looking 
country, also about fifteen miles in extent, between 
the hills and the borders of the lake. The latter 
appearing about twenty-five miles across, whilst 
beyond it was a level region without a height or 
elevation of any kind. 
Connecting the view before me with the fact that 
on the 14th August, when in about lat. 29° S., I 
had found Lake Torrens turning round to the 
north-east, and had observed no continuation of 
Flinders range to the eastward of my position, I 
could now no longer doubt that 1 had almost 
arrived at the termination of that range, and that 
the glittering belt I now saw to the east, was in 
fact only an arm of the lake taking the drainage 
from its eastern slopes. 
Sad and painful were the thoughts that occupied 
my mind in returning to the camp- Hitherto, even 
