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ENE., its banks steep, and lined with immense Melaleuca trees " ; 

 " also," says Byerley, quoting Jardine, " some magnificent Leich- 

 hardt trees." The only creek that would answer to this description 

 is the one now called JUNCTION CREEK, in which case the distance 

 travelled is understated by 5 miles, and the camp is on the site of 

 the modern AMBY CATTLE STATION opposite the EINASLEIGH HOT 

 SPRINGS. 



i$th October. Travelled 8 miles NNW., a mile or two from 

 the right bank of the Einasleigh. CAMP 5 is among the hills 

 called by the Brothers the JORGENSEN RANGE and the western 

 edge of a swamp which they called CAWANA SWAMP. Richardson 

 gives the LATITUDE as 18 2' 7", which may be taken as correct. 



i6tb October. Travelled NW. : n miles (R.), 10 miles (B.) : 

 winding through the JORGENSEN RANGE. CAMP 6, at the point 

 where WARROUL CREEK falls into PARALLEL CREEK, which here 

 leaves the EINASLEIGH RIVER as an anabranch, to fall in again 

 22 miles lower. Warroul Creek has got into the maps as ELIZABETH 

 CREEK, and was identified by W. Hann in 1872 as the creek on 

 which MOUNT SURPRISE CATTLE STATION was situated. MOUNT 

 SURPRISE is now a STATION on the Chillagoe-Etheridge RAILWAY. 



ijth October. PARALLEL CREEK is separated from the Einasleigh 

 River by a high ridge of BASALT. Travelled WNW. down Parallel 

 Creek 8 miles (B.), 7-5- miles (R.). CAMP 8 was in bed of creek 

 (Byerley calls it Camp 8, although really Camp 7, and his numbering 

 is followed with the object of facilitating reference to his narrative). 



I Sth October. WNW., down PARALLEL CREEK, which had now 

 become a gorge. loi miles (R.), 10 miles (B.). CAMP 9. 



iqtb October. W. by N. 8 miles. Midway, the lower con- 

 fluence of PARALLEL CREEK with the EINASLEIGH was passed. CAMP 



o on an alluvial flat on right bank of river. The LATITUDE given 

 by Richardson (17 45' 40" S.) is about right. (SEE MAP L.) 



20th October. WNW., n miles down the EINASLEIGH. At 

 6 miles crossed the mouth of GALAA CREEK (now on the map as 

 MARTIN CREEK) and got out of the stony country. From 7 to 



11 miles, low sandstone ridges. FLOOD-MARKS 30 feet above river. 

 CAMP ii. 



2ist October. WNW., n miles down the river. Good 

 travelling. DESERT SANDSTONE tablelands to north and (according 

 to modern maps) also to south. CAMP 12. 



22nd October. W., 10 miles down the river. CAMP 13, on a 

 creek which was named COOROORA CREEK, but does not appear 

 on modern maps, was half a mile north of the river and about 

 5 miles east of the point where the ETHERIDGE RIVER falls into the 

 southern, or left, bank of the Einasleigh. Richardson gave the 

 LATITUDE as 17 34' 32", which must be nearly correct, and estimated, 

 after plotting his route ', that the CAMP was 18 or 20 miles SSW. 

 of LEICHHARDT'S LYND RIVER. The actual distance is about 



