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His expedition failed because the season was
exceptionally dry, and he was obliged to turn back before he had
accomplished his object.

"If a line be drawn from Lat. 29 deg. 30' and Long. 140 deg. N.W., and another
from Mount Arden due north, they will meet a little to the northward of
the tropic, and there I will be bound to say a fine country will be
discovered." On what date Sturt pledges himself to the discovery of this
fine country is not stated, but when later regretting his failure to
reach the tropic and to set at rest his hypothesis of the better country
to be found there, he briefly tells his reason for the supposition.
"Birds observed east of the Darling in the summer of 1828 in about lat.
29 deg. 30' S. and long. 144 deg. had invariably migrated to the W.N.W.
Cockatoos and parrots, known while in the colony to frequent the richest
and best-watered valleys of the higher lands, would pass in countless
flights to that point of the compass. In South Australia, in lat.


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