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ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE CENTRE.
[Map (Diagram).

Supposed Extent and Formation of Lake Torrens in 1846.] 12.1.LAKE TORRENS PIONEERS AND HORROCKS.
It will be remembered that Eyre, in 1840, reached, after much labour, an elevation to the north-east, at the termination of the range which he had followed, and had named it Mount Hopeless.

From the outlook from its summit he came to the conclusion that the lake was of the shape shown in the diagram, completely surrounding the northern portion of the new colony of South Australia.

In fact, he formed a theory that the colony in far distant times had been an island, the low-lying flats to the east joining the plains west of the Darling.