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Expedition into Central Australia

CHAPTER II
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At sunrise the thermometer stood at 27 degrees, and we had thick ice in our pails.
At five miles from this place, having left the river about a mile to our right, we arrived at the termination of this line of hills.

They gradually fell away to the eastward and disappeared; nor does the fossil formation extend higher up the Murray.

It here commences or terminates, as the traveller is proceeding up or down the stream.

A meridian altitude on the hill just before we descended, placed it in lat.

34 degrees 9 minutes 56 seconds, so that we had still been going gradually to the south.


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