He says there are high ranges to the North and North-West, and water, a sea, extending along the horizon from South-West by South and then East of North, in which there are a number of lofty ranges and islands, as far as the eye can reach.

What is all this?
To-morrow we start for the ranges, and then for the waters, the strange waters, on which boat never swam and over which flag never floated.

But both shall ere long.

We have the heart of the interior laid open to us, and shall be off with a flowing sheet in a few days.

Poole says that the sea was a deep blue, and that in the midst of it was a conical island of great height." Poor Sturt! No boat was ever to float upon that visionary sea, nor flag to wave over those dream-born waters.