Sea view of AUSTRALIND.  Appearance of the country.

To the south of the tongue of land which forms the bay there is also another bay, which would be completely sheltered from all northerly winds so as to combine between the two bays perfect shelter at all seasons of the year.  From the deck of the schooner where she lay we had a view of the entire slope of ground from the beach to the top of the range, about five or six miles distant.  The range seems to consist of isolated hills rising from an elevated plain.  Judging by the eye at that distance, the entire space as far as we had any opportunity of seeing, after going a little way back from the coast, on the slope to the hills, upon the hills, among the hills, beyond the hills, and, in short, everywhere, as far as the eye could discern, appeared a grassy country, thinly sprinkled with some low trees or shrubs, perhaps the acacia.  If this be the case, and that there be water sufficient, of which there is no reason to doubt, this may certainly turn out to be the finest district for sheep pasture that this colony can possess.  What may be the breadth of this district, how far it may extend into the interior, of course nothing can be known or said; but from what I have now seen, and from what Captain Grey has seen on a former occasion, there is little doubt that it extends north and south from the northern part of the Menai Hills as far south as the River Arrowsmith, a distance of more than 80 miles.  To the south of that river comes the range of hills which Captain Grey has called Gairdner’s Range, and which is supposed to be the northern termination of the Darling Range; if so it is very probable that, by keeping on the east side of the Darling Range a continuation of pastoral country might be found all the way to Moresby’s Flat-topped Range.  In coming to our anchorage this morning we passed the opening of another river, that which is laid down in Captain King’s charts as the largest.  From what we saw of it I do not think that much water can issue from it either, although its bed looked larger and better defined than any we had seen hitherto.  The man from the mast-head said he saw the sandy beach all across it.  But the Captain, being anxious to examine the anchorage in the bay, did not wish to come to anchor sooner, so we passed on, perhaps 10 or 12 miles to the south of it.  Just as they were about to let go the small anchor, which had been used since the first was broken, it was discovered that it also was broken nearly through, so we had to drop a large and heavy one, being the only one now remaining in the ship.  We then landed in the boat, and saw two pieces of ship’s timbers set up in the sand of the beach, about half a mile from each other.  Dug and examined under and about the largest of them in hopes of finding some directions, probably about fresh water, but found none.  Examined a place where the tea-tree and wattles were very green