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1843. This sketch was put together hastily for his 
Excellency the Governor, that I might not lose the 
opportunity of forwarding it when I sent from Port 
Lincoln to Adelaide for supplies early in October, 
1840. It was constructed entirely, after I found 
myself compelled to return from the northern 
interior, and could only be attended to, in a 
hurried and imperfect manner, during the brief 
intervals I could snatch from other duties, whilst 
travelling back from the north to Port Lincoln 
(nearly 400 miles,) during which time my move- 
ments were very rapid, and many arrangements, 
consequent upon dividing my party at Bax- 
ter’s range, had to be attended to ; added to this 
were the difficulties and embarrassments of conduct- 
ing myself one division of the party to Port Lincoln, 
through 200 miles of a desert country which had 
never been explored before, and which, from its 
arid and sterile character, presented impediments of 
no ordinary kind. 
Upon my return to Adelaide in 1841, after the 
Expedition had terminated, other duties engrossed 
my time, and it was only after the publication of 
Captain Frome’s report, that my attention was 
again called to the subject. Upon comparing my 
notes and bearings with the original sketch I had 
made, I found that in the hurry and confusion of 
preparing it, whilst travelling, I had laid down all 
the bearings and courses magnetic, without allowing 
for the variation ; nor can this error, perhaps, be 
