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by prickly grass. I was therefore obliged, after 
watering the horses from the casks, to send them a 
mile and half back to some grass we had seen, and 
where they fared tolerably well. Our day’s journey 
had been long and fatiguing, through a barren, 
heavy country. One mile before encamping, we 
crossed the bed of a salt water channel, trending 
to the westward, which was probably connected with 
the Lagoon Harbour of Flinders, as it appeared to 
receive the flood tide. Our latitude was 33° 50 S. 
by observation of a Aquilae. 
September 29.— -Whilst the man was out looking 
for the horses, which had strayed a little during the 
night, I took a set of angles to several heights, 
visible from the camp ; upon the man’s return, he 
reported that he had found some fresh water, but 
upon riding to the place, I found it was only a very 
small hole in a sheet of limestone rock, near the 
salt watercourse, which did not contain above a pint 
or two. The natives, however, appeared to come to 
this occasionally for their supply ; similar holes 
enabling them frequently to remain out in the low 
countries long after the rain has fallen. After 
seeing the party move on, with the native boy to 
act as guide through the scrub, I rode in advance to 
search for water at the hill marked by Flinders as 
Bluff Mount, and named by Colonel Gawler, Mount 
Hill. This isolated elevation rises abruptly from 
the field of scrub, in the midst of which it is situated 
and is of granite formation ; nearly at its summit is 
