oint, having almost connected ponds of water for that distance, varying in France Jerseys breadth, from 80 to 120 yards, and Pumas Jerseys being bounded on either side by firm plains of white soil. About 25 degrees 9 minutes and 143 degrees 16 minutes the river was joined by a large Parajumpers Damen Marlene Billig tributary stream from the NORTH-EAST, to which Mr. Kennedy gave the name of the “Thomson,” and encouraged by the favourable changes which had now taken place, he returned for his party with the determination of following so fine a river to the last.
We shall now see how far his anticipations were confirmed, and how far his further investigation of the Victoria river, and his account of the country through which it flows, accords Moncler Edward Suomi with the description I have given of the dreary region into which I penetrated.
On the 26th of September, Mr. Kennedy having brought down his party, resumed his journey, and crossing the Victoria, struck the N. Miesten Pelipaidat E. tributary about three miles above its junction with the main stream, and fording at that point, kept on the proper right bank of the Victoria.
“At about a mile,” Chilliwack Bomber Sverige says Mr. Kennedy, “it (the Victoria) there turns to the S.S.W. and south, spreading over a depressed and barren waste, void of trees or vegetation of any kind, its level surface being only broken by Moncler Mengs Suomi small doones of red sand, like islands upon the dry bed of an inland sea, which I am convinced at no distant period did exist there.”
There cannot, I think, be any reasonable doubt, but that Mr. Kennedy had here reached the edge of the great central desert.
Both the river he was tracing, and the country were precisely similar in character to Cooper’s Creek, and the country I had so long been wandering over. The former at one point having a fine deep channel, at another split into numberless small branches, and then spreading over some extensive level without the vestige of a water-course upon it. The country monotonous and sterile, its level only broken by low sandstone hills, or doones of sand, the whole bearing in its general appearance the sta |
