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and water, where none such existed in reality. 
Secondly, in December 1843, I was within twenty- 
five miles of the very spot from which Mr. Poole 
thought he looked upon a sea, and I was then 
accompanied by natives, and able, by means of an 
interpreter, to communicate with those who were 
acquainted with the country to the north-west. My 
inquiries upon this point were particular ; but they 
knew of no sea. They asserted that there was mud 
out in that direction, and that a party would be 
unable to travel ; from which I inferred either that 
some branch of the Darling spread out its waters 
there in time of flood, or that Lake Torrens itself 
was stretching out in the direction indicated. 
Thirdly, I hold it physically impossible that a sea 
can exist in the place assigned to it, in as much as 
during an expedition, undertaken by the Surveyor- 
general of the Colony, in September, 1843, that 
officer had attained a position which would place 
himself and Mr. Poole at two opposite points, upon 
nearly the same parallel of latitude ; but about 130 
miles of longitude apart, in a low level country, and 
in which, therefore, the ranges of their respective 
vision from elevations would cross each other, and if 
there was a sea, Captain Frome must have seen it 
as well as Mr. Poole ; again, I myself had an ex- 
tensive and distant view to the north-east and east 
from Mount Hopeless, a low hill, about ninety miles 
further north than Captain Froine’s position, but a 
little more east ; yet there was nothing like a sea to 
