THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
JULY, 1848. 
Art. XXIV. Account of the Exploring Expedition from South 
Australia into the interior of New Holland. By Captain 
Sturt. 
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Feeling satisfied that I could not expect anything favorable in 
the neighbourhood of this creek, running parallel to it as I was 
then doing, for its course was directly north and south, I was re¬ 
solved on crossing it, and turning to the west pushed on through 
a country of alternate sand hill and valley (the former being 
covered with spinifex, the latter with samphire, and the beds of 
salt lagoons). At last, from an elevated point, we saw the creek 
winding its way through a dark plain, like a great serpent, as 
white as snow. Every reed upon its banks bristled as if hoar 
frost had settled on it, and even the water was hidden from our 
view by a thick coating of salt. The mud being too soft for us 
to cross, we ran up this creek northwards, and at about two miles 
passed over it and proceeded to the N.W., crossing a large plain 
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