After passing some distance along the eastern side of a long dry sandbank, we were obliged again to anchor, both boats signalizing a depth of only two fathoms.
FIND A CHANNEL FOR THE SHIP.
Table Hill bore North 46 degrees East, fifteen miles, and Fossil Head North 15 degrees West.

It was now necessary to find a channel for the ship, which I succeeded in doing the next day, and on that following, the 12th, Captain Wickham, Mr.Bynoe, and myself, went to visit the high table range, while Messrs.

Fitzmaurice and Keys were to examine the large inlet running in towards the foot of Table Hill.
By following a creek we almost reached the foot of the high level range in the boat; a line of cliffs stretched along near the summit, beneath which it sloped down rapidly to the plain.

We ascended by a slight valley, communicating with a break in the cliffs, but found on reaching the top that instead of being on a level, we were standing amidst a series of undulations or low hills, forming the crest of a platform, but so blended together, and of so nearly the same height as to appear in the distance one continuous plain.

It was, therefore, with some difficulty that we could find the highest part, each, until we reached it, appearing to be so.