There were likewise mountains in the distance, with broken lofty peaks, exactly resembling the Mount Serle chain, and I ventured to hope that I had at length found a way to escape from the gloomy region to which we had been so long confined.

Descending from our position we pushed for a dark mass of foliage to the N.E., and shortly after crossing the dry bed of a lagoon, found ourselves riding through an open box-tree forest, amidst an abundance of grass.

At half a mile further we were brought up by our arrival on the banks of a magnificent channel.

There was a large sheet of water to our left, covered with wild fowl.

Flooded gum-trees of large size grew on its banks, and its appearance was altogether imposing.