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gums, for one-third of a mile, to another bend of the river, which still leaving to my left, I walked about W.N.W. for two miles and a half, over either a sandy or gravelly surface, bearing shrubs, in many parts burnt, and came again to the bed of the river where we first found a small and brackish pond, but immediately afterwards a large and tolerably fresh one. The party stopt here for the night, and whilst the evening meal was preparing I went to one of the highest eminences in the plain, three-quarters of a mile north; and as it was only covered with a few grass trees and low shrubs, my view was unconfined. The following bearings, with all the inaccuracies of a pocket compass, will assist in conveying a notion of the surrounding country:
Mount Manypeak (western hummock as before) S.E by S. ¼ S. Ditto. . . .Gardener ... S.by E. ½ E. Eastern shoulder of Porrong-u-rup S. ½ E. Eastern of two middle hummocks of Porrong-u-rup ... S. ½ W. Top of western shoulder of ditto . . S.S.W. ½ W. Western extremity of North Range (Maggerip) N.W. ½ W. Mondgurip (distance nine miles and a half) N.N.W. ¼ W. Kowr-u-larrup (distance eight miles) N.N.E. ¼ E. Toodye-ver-up N.E. ½ E. Western high peak of Rugged Mountain E. by N. ¾ N.
Kowr-u-larrup seemed nearer than Porrong-u-rup, so that the width of the valley, or rather plain, between the smaller range of Porrong-u-rup on the south and the grand range on the north, may be something near sixteen miles. The N.W. part of
