A few miles north of Blanche Water he came to many surface springs surrounding a fine lagoon.

To the north of them was an isolated hill, which he called Weathered Hill.

From the summit of this hill he had a curious example of the effects of refraction in this region in a similar illusion to that which suggested Poole's inland sea.

To the northward he saw a belt of gigantic gum-trees, and beyond them what appeared to be a sheet of water with elevated land on the far side.

To the eastward was another large lake.