(Footnote.  At that time I supposed the difference had arisen from some error or omission in my map and took much pains to discover it; but not having succeeded my work having also closed to a mile and three-quarters on my return to the country connected by trigonometrical survey with Sydney I have been obliged to represent these parts of the coast according to this land survey.)

CHAPTER 3.11.

Leave the Glenelg and travel eastward. 
Cross the Crawford. 
Boggy character of its sources. 
Recross the Rifle range. 
Heavy timber the chief impediment. 
Travelling also difficult from the softness of the ground. 
Excursion southward to Portland Bay. 
Mount Eckersley. 
Cross the Fitzroy. 
Cross the Surry. 
Lady Julia Percy’s Isle. 
Beach of Portland Bay. 
A vessel at anchor. 
House and farming establishment there. 
Whale fishery. 
Excursion to Cape Nelson. 
Mount Kincaid. 
A whale chase. 
Sagacity of the natives on the coast. 
Mount Clay. 
Return to the camp. 
Still retarded by the soft soil. 
Leave one of the boats, and reduce the size of the boat carriage. 
Excursion to Mount Napier. 
Cross some fine streams. 
Natives very timid. 
Crater of Mount Napier or Murroa. 
View from the summit. 
Return to the Camp. 
Mr. Stapylton’s excursion to the north-west. 
The Shaw. 
Conduct the carts along the highest ground. 
Again ascend Murroa and partially clear the summit. 
Mount Rouse. 
Australian Pyrenees. 
Swamps harder than the ground around them. 
Again reach the good country. 
Mounts Bainbrigge and Pierrepoint. 
Mount Sturgeon. 
Ascend Mount Abrupt. 
View of the Grampians from the summit. 
Victoria range and the Serra. 
Mud again, and a broken axle. 
Mr. Stapylton examines the country before us. 
At length get through the soft region. 
Cattle quite exhausted. 
Determine to leave them in a depot to refresh while I proceed forward. 
Specimens of natural history. 
Situation of depot camp at Lake Repose.

LEAVE THE GLENELG AND TRAVEL EASTWARD.

August 23.

Having at length disposed of the course of the Glenelg, my next object was to cross and examine the high ground which enclosed its basin on the east supplying those tributaries which the river received from its left bank, and evidently extending from the Grampians to Cape Bridgewater.  I had named this the Rifle range in crossing that branch of it extending north-westward when I ascertained its characteristics to be lofty woods and swamps; but its ramifications in other directions and how it was connected backwards with the mountains still remained to be discovered; and from what I did know of this range I apprehended considerable difficulty in getting over it with our heavy carriages at such a season.  That we might if possible escape the