The traces of a small kangaroo were everywhere abundant but the animals were not seen.

We walked to the easternmost of the lakes which the French named Etangs Duvaildaily and which M.de Freycinet remarks as being surrounded by an extensive beach, composed entirely of bivalve shells, a species of cardium: the quantity was indeed extraordinary.

The banks were frequented by gulls and sandpipers, of which many were shot.

The water was found to be perfectly salt and from the circumstance of its rising and falling with the tide it must have some communication with the sea.

The rocks of the island are principally calcareous and in a very advanced state of decomposition.