Drawing; similar to watercolour engraved by Landseer T as `Distant Cordillera of the Andes' reproduced facing Narrative 2: 336. [initialled by] F[itzRoy] R top right corner

The annotation at the top reads: "grey morning with yellowish light over the mountains". The annotation immediately over the distant horizon reads: "snowy and blue"; this horizon consists of a very faint indication of jagged hills, somewhat more pronounced on the left. The left midground shows darker sloping and undulating ground, annotated: "deep blue". In the right midground, the land rises steadily, the annotation reading: "with[?] purples". Between these midground features, a darkly pencilled strip indicates the wide low rockfaces forming the distant far bank of the river. The river bends leftwards then rightwards through the centre midground into the right foreground. The left midground and all of the nearest foreground are occupied by low land at the river's edge, slightly undulating and sprouting occasional grasses or small bushes; the annotation in the left midground reads: "coming shore greenish".