At sunrise Mr.
Poole and Mr.Browne ascended another sand hill, from whence they again saw the hills to the westward, seemingly very high and steep; but there was no sign of an intermediate basin, the country towards the ranges bearing a most sterile aspect.

Here Mr.Browne saw a new pigeon, which had a very singular flight.
On the afternoon of the 28th the party moved on a course of 10 degrees to the south of west, down a leading valley, the country becoming still more barren, the sand ridges quite bare, and only an occasional hakea on the flats.

At eight miles on the above course, and from the top of a sandy ridge at the distance of two miles, they saw a sheet of water about a mile and a half in length, in a sandy bed extending to the north, without any visible termination.

There was another sheet of water to the south of this in the same kind of bed, connected with the larger one by a dry channel.

It appeared from the lay of the country that these sheets of water were formed by drainage from the barren ranges from which Mr.Poole calculated he was 15 to 18 miles distant.