During this year also, Miller and Dutton explored the country at the back of Fowler's Bay.

Forty miles to the north they saw treeless, grassy plains stretching far inland, but could find no permanent water.

Warburton afterwards reported in depreciatory terms of this region; but Delisser and Hardwicke, who also visited it, stated that it would make first-class pastoral country if only surface water could be obtained.

During the whole of Warburton's career, his judgment of the pastoral value of country seems to have been lamentably defective.

He made no allowance for the varying nature of the seasons.