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whole course by a steep ridge, like a sea-shore, from 
which you descended into a basin, certainly not 
above the level of the sea, possibly even below it (I 
had no instruments with me to enable me to ascertain 
this,) the whole bed consisted of mud and water, 
and 1 found it impossible to advance far into it from 
its boggy nature. On the east side of Flinders range, 
Captain Frome found the lake a desert, 300 feet above 
the level of the sea,* and consisting of “ loose and 
drifting sand,” and “low sandy ridges, very scantily 
clothed with stunted scrub on their summits.” Now, 
by referring to Captain Frome’s chart and report, 
it appears that the place thus described was nearly 
thirty miles south of Mount Serle, and consequently 
twenty miles south of that part of the bed of Lake 
Torrens which I had seen from that hill. It is further 
evident, that Captain Frome had not reached the 
basin of Lake Torrens, and I cannot help thinking, 
that if he had gone further to the north-east, he 
would have come, to nearly the same level that I had 
been at on the western side of the hills. There are 
several reasons for arriving at this conclusion. First, 
the manner in which the drainage is thrown off from 
the east side of Flinders range, and the direction 
which the watercourses take to the north-east or 
north ; secondly, because an apparent connection was 
traceable in the course of the lake, from the heights in 
Flinders range, nearly all the way round it ; thirdly, 
* By altitude deduced from the temperature of boiling water. 
