There can be no doubt, however, of its being very salt, as that portion of its bed which lay exposed to our view was thickly coated with pungent particles of salt.

There were not any trees or shrubs of any kind near the lake where we made it, nor could either grass or fresh water be procured for our horses.

Lake Torrens is bounded on its western side by high lands--apparently a continuation of the table land to the westward of the head of Spencer's Gulf .-- I should think that it must receive a considerable drainage from that quarter, as well as the whole of the waters falling from Flinders range to the eastward.
"From the very inhospitable nature of the country, around the lake, I could not examine it so carefully or so extensively as I could have wished.

My time, too, being very limited, made me hurry away to the northward, to search for a place to which I might bring on my party, as the grass in the neighbourhood of the depot was very old, and much less abundant than on either of my former visits there.

It became, therefore, imperative on me to remove the horses as speedily as possible.