But on gaining the summit, we were amply repaid for our trouble.

The view extended far and wide, but we were again disappointed in the main object that had induced us to undertake the journey.

I took the following bearings by compass.

Oxley's Table Land bore N.40 E.distant forty-five miles; small and distant hill due E.; conical peak seen from Oxley's Table Land S.60 E., very distant; long ridge of high land, S.E., distant thirty-five miles; high land, S.30 E., distant thirty miles; long range, S.25 W.
To the westward, as a medium point, the horizon was unbroken, and the eye wandered over an apparently endless succession of wood and plain.

A brighter green than usual marked the course of the mountain torrents in several places, but there was no glittering light among the trees, no smoke to betray a water hole, or to tell that a single inhabitant was traversing the extensive region we were overlooking.