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SALT LAKE. 
mixed with sand. For the next three miles and a 
half, our route lay over a rich swampy grassy land, 
and we were literally walking all the way in water 
left by the rains ; besides crossing in that distance 
two fresh water streams, running strongly towards 
the sea, and both emptying into small lakes seen 
under the coast ridges. The largest of these two was 
one yard and a half wide and a foot deep, and 
appeared of a permanent character. We now 
ascended an undulating and rather more elevated 
tract of country of an oolitic limestone formation, 
most luxuriantly clothed with the richest grass, and 
having several lakes interspersed among the hollows 
between the ridges. Near this we halted for the 
night under some of the coast sand-hills, after a 
day’s stage of twelve miles. We had splendid feed 
for our horses, but were without any water for our- 
selves, being unable to cany any with us, as the can- 
teens were full of treacle. From our camp, a peak, 
near Cape le Grand, bore E. 33° S. 
June 18. — During the night heavy showers had 
fallen, and in the oilskins we caught as much water 
as sufficed for our tea. After breakfast we proceeded 
onwards, and at a little more than three miles came 
to the borders of a large salt lake, lying south- 
west and north-east, and being one of two noted by 
Captain Flinders as having been copied into his map 
from a French chart. Following the borders of the 
lake for a mile we found abundance of fresh water 
under the banks by which it was inclosed, and 
