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the BROUGHTON RIVER, south-east of Charters Towers, and camped 

 at the mouth of GLADSTONE CREEK. 



He followed the Burdekin to the SE., to its junction with the 

 SUTTOR RIVER, which comes from the south. He then followed up 

 the Suttor to the south as far as lat. 21 22' 43", where he placed 

 his camp of yd November. 



Six miles south of this camp, the stream now known as the 

 Suttor, branches off to the east. Gregory, however, followed 

 southward on what is undoubtedly the more important water- 

 course, the BELYANDO, which he believed to be the Suttor. Ten 

 miles above the Suttor, the Belyando is joined by another creek, 

 which Gregory followed up to E. and SE., still in the belief that 

 he was on the Suttor. This appears on modern maps as " MISTAKE 

 CREEK," the name being apparently a sarcastic reference to Gregory's 

 natural and justifiable mistake. A branch of this creek goes off 

 to the SE. 45 miles above its junction with the Belyando, and is 

 named MICLERE CREEK. Gregory camped on Miclere Creek on 

 8th November, in lat. 22 26' 1 6". Two days later he camped 

 west of BLAIR ATHOL, on what is now known as GREGORY CREEK, 

 which runs WNW. into Mistake Creek. 



Leichhardt's MACKENZIE RIVER was reached on i$tb November. 

 (QUEENSLAND i6-MiLE MAP.) On the ijth, below the junction 

 of the COMET and MACKENZIE RIVERS, one of LEICHHARDT'S 

 CAMPS on his second journey was identified. On the 22nd, the 

 party arrived at Connor and Fitz's Station on the DAWSON RIVER 

 (23 51' 15" S.). Thence, via Rannes (Hay's Station), Rawabelle, 

 Boondooma, Tabinga, Nanango, Colinton, Kilcoy, Durundur 

 and Caboolture. BRISBANE was reached on i6th December, 1856. 



Gregory did not travel by dead reckoning and rarely gave even 

 his own estimate of the distance covered. But his carefully taken 

 latitudes and occasional lunar observations for longitude are 

 thoroughly reliable, and enable us to lay down the position of his 

 nightly camps with confidence on modern maps. Kennedy was 

 also an expert surveyor and may have been no less accurate on his 

 Cape York Peninsula trip, but his records perished with him. 



In addition to the charting of his route, Gregory made careful 

 petrographical notes on the journey which we have followed, and 

 these, so far as the Peninsula part is concerned, I have added to the 

 map along his line of travel. 



Gregory's expedition (March-July, 1858) in search of Leich- 

 hardt did not touch the Cape York Peninsula. 



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