Behind us to the north there were many projecting points appearing above the level of the range.

These seemed to be the northern termination of these hills, and beyond them the country was very low.

The outline of the projecting points was hilly, and they were so exactly alike that it would have been impossible to have recognised any to which we might have taken bearings; but there were two little cones in a small range to the north upon which I felt I could rely with greater certainty.

They respectively bore 302 and 306 from me; and as they were the only advanced points on which I could now keep up bearings, although in the midst of hills, I determined as soon as I should have examined the neighbourhood a little more, to proceed to them.

From our first position we went to the next, a hill of about 450 feet in height, perfectly flat-topped, and detached from the main group.
In crossing over to this point the ground was stony, but there was a good deal of grass growing in tufts upon it, and bare patches of blistered earth on which flat stools of gypsum were apparently in process of formation.