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MOUNT BARREN. 
Nine miles from our last night’s camp a view of the 
“ Rocky Islets” was obtained from a hill, and set at 
due south. Immediately on descending from the 
hill we crossed a salt chain of ponds in a bed of 
sandstone and ironstone, and nine miles beyond 
this we came to another, also of salt water ; here 
we halted for the night as there was tolerable grass 
for the horses, and we were fortunate enough to 
discover fresh water in a granite rock. 
In the course of the afternoon I obtained a view 
of a very distant hill bearing from us W. 8° S. This 
I took to be the east Mount Barren of Flinders ; 
but it was still very far away, and the intervening 
country looked barren and unpromising. During 
the day our route had still been over the same cha- 
racter of country as before, with this exception, that 
it was more stony and barren, with breccia or iron- 
stone grit covering the surface. The streams were 
less frequently met with, and were of a greatly in- 
ferior character, consisting now principally of only 
chains of small stagnant ponds of salt water, desti- 
tute of grass, and without any good soil in the 
hollows through which they took their course. 
Many of these, and especially those we crossed in 
the latter part of the day, were quite dry, and 
appeared to be nothing more than deep gutters 
washed by heavy rains between the undulations of 
the country. 
The rock formation, where it was developed, was 
exclusively sandstone or ironstone, with inferior 
