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were consequently obliged to watch the horses 
during the night, to prevent their straying. From 
this camp Mount Hall bore S. 2° E. and Mount 
Cooper S. E. the variation of the compass being 
2° 22' E. 
September 19. — Travelling east through the 
same kind of country for fifteen miles, we halted upon 
a high scrubby ridge ; having a few grassy openings 
at intervals, and with large sheets of granite exposed 
in some parts of its surface. In the holes among 
these rocks we procured a supply of water that had 
been deposited by the late rains ; but which a few 
warm days would have dried up. The latitude of the 
water was 32° 48' S. and from it Mount Hall bore S. 
38° W., Mount Cooper S. 15° W. Before us to the 
north-east were visible many peaks of a range, with a 
high and broken outline, wffiich I named the Gawler 
range, after His Excellency Colonel Gawler, the 
Governor of South Australia. One very high peak 
in this range I named Mount Sturt, after my friend 
Captain Sturt ; it bore from our present camp 
E. 10° N. and had been previously seen from the 
summit of Mount Hall. 
September 20. — Our route to-day was through a 
perfect desert, very scrubby and stony, with much 
prickly grass growing upon the sand ridges, which 
alternated with the hard limestone flats ; there were 
very few clear intervals of country upon our whole 
course ; and for the last five miles the heavy sand 
and dense scrub made it very difficult to get on at 
