[Note 30 At End Of Para.] Our Latitudes Appear To Agree Exactly. The Second Point Upon Which Some Difference Appears To Exist Between Captain Frome's Report And Mine Is The Character Of Lake Torrens Itself, Which Captain Frome Thought Might More Properly Be Called A Desert.

This, it will be observed, is with reference to its south-east extremity - a point I never visited, and

Which I only saw once from Mount Serle; a point, too, which from the view I then had of it, distant although it was, even at that time seemed to me to be "apparently dry," and is marked as such in Arrowsmith's chart, published from the sketch alluded to.

[Note 30: This has been done by Arrowsmith in the map which accompanies these volumes; - to which Mr. Arrowsmith has also added Captain Frome's route from the original tracings.]

There is, however, a still greater, and more singular difference alluded to in Captain Frome's report, which it is necessary to remark; I mean that of the elevation of the country. On the west side of Flinders range, for 200 miles that I traced the course of Lake Torrens, it was, as I have observed, girded in its whole course by a steep ridge, like a sea-shore, from which you descended into a basin, certainly not above the level of the sea, possibly even below it (I had no instruments with me to enable me to ascertain this,) the whole bed consisted of mud and water, and I found it impossible to advance far into it from its boggy nature.

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