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MOUNT RAGGED. 
A jagged peak, which I named Mount Ragged, 
bore W. 10° N., and a round topped one W. 30° N. 
We were now actually beyond those hills ; but the 
level bank, under which we had been travelling, 
prevented our seeing more of them than the bare out- 
line of their lofty summits. The whole of the inter- 
vening country, between the level bank and the hills, 
consisted of heavy sandy ridges, a good deal covered 
with scrub ; but we now found more grass than we 
had seen during the whole journey before. In the 
night I was taken ill again, with violent pains, 
accompanied by cold clammy sweats ; and as the 
air was cold and raw, and a heavy dew falling, I 
suffered a great deal. 
May 17. — This morning I felt rather better, but 
very weak, and wishing to give the horses an op- 
portunity of drinking, which they would not do very 
early on a cold morning, I did not break up the 
camp until late. Upon laying down last night Wylie 
had left the meat on the ground at some distance 
from our fire, instead of putting it up on a bush as 
I had directed him, the consequence was that a 
wild dog had stolen about fourteen pounds of it whilst 
we slept, and we were now again reduced to a very 
limited allowance. 
After travelling about five miles we found a great 
and important change in the basis rock of the 
country ; it was now a coarse imperfect kind of grey 
granite, and in many places the low-water line was 
occupied by immense sheets of it. Other symptoms 
