Flinders Journal – 15 September

Wednesday 15 September, 1802 Broad Sound Of land inland by a channel off Broad Sound ... "The country here was a stiff, clayey flat, covered with grass, and seemed to have been overflowed at spring tides ... The grass of the plain was interspersed with a species of sensitive plant, whose leaves curled up and in, and about our footsteps in such a manner, that the way we had come was for some time distinguishable." (P65) "Towards Double Mount and Shoal-water Bay, the country consisted of gently-rising hills and extensive plains, well covered with wood and apparently fertile ... To the south and westward there was a ridge of high land, which appeared to be a prolongation of the same whence the upper branches of Port Bowen and Shoal-water Bay take their rise, and by the low land and small arms on the west side of Broad Sound are bounded. A similar ridge ran behind Port Curtis and Keppel Bay, and it is not improbable that the two are connected, and of the same substance; for at Port Curtis the basis stone of the country was a granite, and this small hill was the same." (P66)

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