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Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And

CHAPTER IX
19/30

Very similar ones have since been found in the volcanic region near Mount Gambier, on the southern coast of New Holland.

From our present camp were seen before us to the north-west some low green looking ranges, lightly timbered, and promising a better country than we had hitherto met with.
October 27 .-- Having arrived at the hills, in about three miles, we found them abundantly grassed, but very rugged and rocky, of an oolitic limestone formation, with occasionally a light reddish soil covering the rock in the flats and valleys.

Between these ranges and the sea, which was about a mile beyond them, were rather high sand hills, having a few stunted trees growing upon them, but otherwise destitute of vegetation.
No water could be found, nor were there any watercourses from the hills, where we examined them.
Keeping under the east side of the ranges for a few miles, we crossed the main ridge to the westward, and after a stage of about thirteen miles, halted under a high hill, which I named Mount Hope, in my former journey.
In a gorge of the range where the granite cropped out among the limestone, we found a spring of beautiful water, and encamped for the day.

Mr.Scott and one of the native boys shot several pigeons, which came to the spring to drink in the evening in great numbers.

In the meantime I had ascended the hill for a view, and to take angles.


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