Low bushes bounded the horizon all round, and hid the grassy plains from our view; but they were denser to the south and east than at any other point.

Mount Lyell, the large hill south, bore 140 degrees to the east of north, distant between forty and fifty miles.

A short time after we left the grassy flats we crossed the dry bed of a large lagoon, which had been seen by Mr.Poole on a bearing of 77 degrees from the Magnetic Hill.

In the richer soil, a plant with round, striped fruit upon it, of very bitter taste, a species of cucumber, was growing.

We next proceeded to the eastward, and surveying the country from higher ground, observed that the creek had no outlet from the plains, and that it could not but terminate on them.
As I had no object in a prolonged journey to the south, I turned back from this station, and retracing my steps to the water where we had left the natives, reached it at half-past six.