[Note 19: After Charles Cooper, Esq.

the Judge of the colony.] At a bearing of S.35 degrees W.
another saltwater inlet was seen apparently communicating with the sea; but this we could not satisfactorily ascertain from its great distance.

The latitude of Mount Hall, deduced from observations of a Lyrae and a Aquilae, was 33 degrees 2 minutes 40 seconds S.Several native fires were seen to the east and south-east in the scrub.
November 3 .-- After seeing the party ready tomove on, I left Mr.Scott to conduct the dray, whilst I rode forward in advance to the depot near Streaky Bay, where I arrived early in the afternoon, and was delighted to find the party all well, and everything going on prosperously.

They had expected me some time before and were looking out very anxiously for my arrival.

The WATERWITCH had arrived on the 29th of October, but the master did not communicate with my party before the 31st; so that until the last three days they had been quite ignorant of our movements, and uneasy at our so greatly exceeding the time originally fixed for rejoining them.