We then found ourselves on the brow of a deep valley that separated us from the little cones we purposed ascending.

The side of it which trended to the north-west was very abrupt and stony, and it was with some difficulty we descended into it; but that done, we left Morgan and Flood with the cart, and ascended the nearer peak.
From the summit of the highest of the cones we had a clear view round more than one half of the horizon.

Immediately at the base of the ranges northwards, there was a long strip of plain, and beyond it a dark and gloomy scrub, that swept round from S.W.to E., keeping equi-distant from the hills, excepting at the latter point where it closed in upon them.

On the N.W.horizon there was a small low undulating range, apparently unconnected with any other, and distant about 40 miles.

No change had taken place in the geological formations of the main range.