Except in these useless places, the grass does not grow in tufts, but covers the land equally, with a short, nutritious herbage, better adapted possibly, to the bite of small, than of large cattle. The food for the latter, is grown in the bottoms of the vallies & upon the damp flats. A large proportion of the soil, promises a fair return, for the labours of the cultivator, and a smaller, insures an ample reward: but the greater part, would perhaps turn to more advantage, if left for pasturage, than if thrown into cultivation; it would be rich as the one, but poor as the other. Water is found in runs, more than in Ponds, and the not 13. CAIRN ERECTED ON FLINDERS' LANDING-PLACE, KANGAROO ISLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 14. PORTRAIT OF EARL SPENCER. GEORGE JOHN, SECOND EARL SPENCER, K.G. Who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, despatched Flinders on his discovery voyage in the Investigator. (Photographed, by permission of Lord Spencer, from the painting by Copley, at Althorp, Northamptonshire.) 15. TABLET AT MEMORY COVE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 16. VIEW ON KANGAROO ISLAND, BY WESTALL. (Reproduced from the engraving in Flinders' Journal, after Westall's drawing.) 17. FLINDERS'S CHART OF SPENCER'S GULF, ST. VINCENT'S GULF, AND ENCOUNTER BAY. 18. TABLET AT ENCOUNTER BAY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, COMMEMORATING THE MEETING OF FLINDERS AND BAUDIN. IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MEETING NEAR THIS BLUFF BETWEEN H.M.S. 'INVESTIGATOR'--MATTHEW FLINDERS WHO EXPLORED THE COAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND M.F. 'LE GEOGRAPHE'--NICOLAS BAUDIN, APRIL 8, 1802. ON BOARD THE 'INVESTIGATOR' WAS JOHN FRANKLIN THE ARCTIC DISCOVERER: THESE ENGLISH AND FRENCH EXPLORERS HELD FRIENDLY CONFERENCE. AND FLINDERS NAMED THE PLACE OF MEETING 'ENCOUNTER BAY.' UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY LORD TENNYSON. APRIL 8, 1902. 19. VIEW OF THE WESTERN ARM OF PORT PHILLIP, BY WESTALL. From the copy (in the Mitchell Library) of Westall's original drawing in the Royal Colonial Institute, London. 22 Port Phillip. Distant view of the West arm of the Western Port. Looking to south-west. April 30th 1802. The view appears to be one of Indented Head. On April 30, 1802, the date of the sketch, Flinders was "nearly at the northern extremity of Indented Head" and took some bearings "from the brow of a hill a little way back." 20. FLINDERS' MAP OF PORT PHILLIP AND WESTERNPORT. 21. VIEW OF SYDNEY HARBOUR, FROM VAUCLUSE, BY WESTALL. (Reproduced from the engraving in Flinders' Journal, after Westall's drawing.) 22. FLINDERS' CHART OF TORRES STRAIT, ALSO SHOWING COOK'S AND BLIGH'S TRACKS. 23. FLINDERS' MAP OF THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA. 24. FLINDERS' MAP OF AUSTRALIA, SHOWING HIS PRINCIPAL VOYAGES. 25. VIEW ON THE HAWKESBURY RIVER, BY WESTALL. From the copy (in the Mitchell Library) of Westall's original drawing in the Royal Colonial Institute, London. 26. WRECK REEF ISLAND, BY WESTALL. (Reproduced from the engraving in Flinders' Journal, after Westall's drawing.) 27. FLINDERS' MAP OF WRECK REEF.