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POOLS OF WATER. 
from the great abundance of rain that had fallen, I no 
longer apprehended a scarcity of water on the route 
to Streaky Bay, and therefore decided upon sending 
my overseer across with the party, whilst I myself 
took a dray down direct to Port Lincoln, on the 
west side of Spencer’s Gulf, to obtain additional 
supplies, with the intention of joining them again 
at Streaky Bay. 
Having spent some time in taking bearings from 
the summit of Baxter’s range, I examined all the 
channels and gorges coming from it, and in most of 
these I found water. I am of opinion however that in 
a very dry season, the water which I now found will 
be quite dried up, and especially in the largest of the 
watercourses, or the one upon which we were en- 
camped.* 
A little further south, there is a rocky ravine 
winding through a gorge and terminating in a 
waterfall, with a large pool of beautiful water at the 
base, and with many large and deep holes of water 
in the rocks above. In this ravine I imagine water 
might be procured at any period of the year, and I 
am confirmed in this opinion by the circumstance of 
three well beaten native roads, coming from different 
points of the compass, and all converging at this 
place. This is an important position for parties 
crossing to the westward, or going overland to Port 
* In October 1842, this was quite dry, but water was still 
found in holes in the rocks in the southernmost gorge, above the 
waterfall, at the base of which water was also procured by digging 
in the gravel. 
