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railway. The railway which links Cairns with the Etheridge 

 goldfield will probably in the future be joined with that from 

 Croydon to Normanton. The ultimate northern, or Gulf, 

 terminus of the Townsville-Hughenden-Cloncurry- Mount Cuthbert 

 railway will probably be at Burketown rather than at Normanton, 

 as not only is the distance less (Burketown 152, Normanton 184 

 miles), but the tendency will be to keep the line as far as possible 

 on the high and mineralised country extending through Mount 

 Oxide and Lawn Hills. 



I have already pointed out, when dealing with Flinders' con- 

 jectural identifications, that the " small opening in 17 26' S." 

 (17 28' S., really), which he thought might be Tasman's Caron 

 Revier, was much more likely to have been what Tasman named 

 the Van Diemen Revier, and that this VAN DIEMEN INLET is the 

 mouth of the modern NORMAN RIVER. 



