Again arrive on the Glenelg. 
Indifferent country on its banks. 
Breadth and velocity of the river. 
Encamp on a tributary. 
Difficult passage. 
The expedition brought to a stand in soft ground. 
Excursion beyond. 
Reach a fine point on the river. 
The carts extricated. 
The whole equipment reaches the river. 
The boats launched on the Glenelg. 
Mr. Stapylton left with a depot at Fort O’Hare. 
Character of the river. 
Ornithorynchus paradoxus. 
Black swans. 
Water brackish. 
Isle of Bags. 
Arrival at the seacoast. 
Discovery bay. 
Mouth of the Glenelg. 
Waterholes dug in the beach. 
Remarkable hollow. 
Limestone cavern. 
One fish caught in the Glenelg. 
Stormy weather. 
Return to the depot. 
Difference in longitude.

CROSS VARIOUS RIVULETS.

August 9.

Once more in a state of forward movement we crossed green hills and running brooks until, when we had travelled nearly six miles from Muddy Camp and had crossed six fine streams or burns, we met with a more formidable impediment in the seventh.  The sides of this ravine were so uncommonly steep that our new difficulty was how to move the vehicles down to the bank of the stream.  In one place where a narrow point of ground projected across, a passage seemed just possible; and after we had made it better with spades we attempted to take a light cart over.  The acclivity was still however rather too much, and over went the cart, carrying the shaft bullock with it, and depositing all my instruments etc. under it in the bed of the stream.  With travellers on roads this might have been thought a serious accident, but in our case we were prepared for joltings, and nothing was in the least degree injured; neither was the animal hurt, and we ascertained by the experiment, dangerous though it was, that still more was necessary to be done for the passage of the heavy carts and boats which were still some way behind; and I encamped on the bank beyond that the men might set about this work.  No time was lost in filling up the hollow with all the dead trees that lay about and what others we could cut for the purpose; and thus before sunset the three carts and one waggon were got across.  The rocks in the bed of this stream consisted of grey gneiss, and on the hills beyond it I found nodules of highly ferruginous sandstone.

ENTER THE VALLEY OF NANGEELA.

August 10.

By means of a block and tackle attached to a large tree the remaining carts and the boat-carriage were safely lowered to the bed of the stream.  To draw them up the opposite bank was practicable only by uniting the strength of several teams, yet this too was effected successfully and the whole party were enabled to go forward in the morning.  At a mile and a half from the camp a scene was displayed to our view which gladdened every heart.  An open grassy country extending as far as we could see—­hills