es the rugged tops of some inland mountains were visible over it, but during the remainder of its long course, the bank was the limit of our view.
“This equality of elevation for so great an extent, and the evidently calcareous nature of the bank, at least in the upper 200 feet, would bespeak it Lucas Digne Drakter to have been the exterior line of some vast coral reef, which is always more elevated than the interior parts, and commonly level with high water mark. From the gradual subsiding of the sea, or perhaps from some convulsion of nature, this bank may have attained its present height above the surface, and however extraordinary such a change may appear, yet when it is recollected that branches of coral still exist, upon Bald Head, at the elevation of 400 feet or more, this supposition assumes a degree of probability, and it would farther seem that the subsiding of the waters has not been at a period very remote, since these frail branches Derrick Rose Koszulki have yet neither been all beaten down nor mouldered away by the wind and weather.
“If this supposition be well founded, it may with the fact of no other hill or object having been perceived above the bank in the greater part of its course, assist in forming some conjecture as to what may be within it, which cannot as I judge in Alexis Sanchez Drakter such case, be other than flat sandy plains or water. The bank may even be a narrow barrier between an interior and the exterior sea, and much do I regret the not having formed an idea of this probability at the time, Antonio Nocerino Drakter for notwithstanding the great difficulty and risk, I should certainly have attempted a landing upon some Andros Townsend Drakter part of the coast, to ascertain a fact of so much importance.”
Had there been any inland ranges they would have Gary Payton Koszulki been seen by that searching officer from the ocean, but it is clear that none exists; for Mr. Eyre in his intercourse with the natives, during his journey from South Australia Sven Bender Pelipaita to King George’s Sound, elicited nothing from them that led him to suppose that there were any hills in the interior, or indeed that an inland sea was |
