It still appeared low, nor could we make out its character; three cones marked its southern extremity, and I concluded that it was a part of Scrope's Range.

With the exception of these hills there were none other visible from Laidley's Ponds.
The ground whereon we now travelled was hard and firm, so that we progressed rapidly, and at five miles descended into a bare flat of whitish clay, on which a few bushes of polygonum were alone growing under box-trees.

At about two hundred yards we were stopped by a watercourse, into which the floods of the Darling were flowing with great velocity.

It was about fifty yards broad, had low muddy banks, and was decidedly the poorest spot we had seen of the kind.

This, Nadbuck informed me, was the Williorara or Laidley's Ponds, a piece of intelligence at which I was utterly confounded.