View from Mount Lofty, looking over the Plains of Adelaide. The Port and St Vincent's Gulf in the distance.

Part of the text accompanying the illustration reads 'the eye wanders down a succession of gullies formed by the intersection of the abrupt hills on either side, which are scattered with gum trees, and carpeted with verdant grass: at the bottom of the valley is a serpentine stream, that flows from a waterfall of about sixty feet, down a perpendicular wall of rock below the spot from whence this sketch is taken; beyond lie the Plains of Adelaide in a state of cultivation, and to the right extend those of Parra and Gawler, till they melt away in the extreme distance; nearly opposite the mouth of the gully, the windings of the harbour are seen stretched out as on a map, with the buildings of Port Adelaide just visible when the sun is shining on them; the view is bounded by the waters of Gulf St Vincent, with the opposite shore of Yorkes' Peninsula clearly discernable on the horizon. The time for this sketch is in the month of July (midwinter) when the rains have clothed the hills and vallies of South Australia with a garment of the most brilliant green'.

Today the plain below is covered with the suburbs of Adelaide which extend from Gawler in the north to Seaford in the south.