29 degrees 2 minutes 14 seconds S.The above outline will enable the reader to judge of the character of the hills, that still existed to the eastward of us, and the probability of their continuance or cessation.

I must confess that they looked to me as if they had been so many small islands, off the point of a larger one.

They rose in detached groups from the midst of the plains, as such islands from the midst of the sea, and their aspect altogether bore such a striking resemblance to many of the flat-topped islands round the Australian continent described by other travellers, that I could not but think they had once been similarly situated.
On the 18th I passed into the plains until we had cleared the hills, when we rode along their base on a course somewhat to the east of north.

We kept about half a mile from the foot of the ranges, with the brush about three miles to our left, and a clear space between us and them.

I had been induced to take this direction in the hope that if there were any creeks falling from the hills into the plains we should intersect them, and accordingly after a ride of about seven miles we observed some gum-trees, about two miles ahead.