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of the river is indicated in the modern 4- mile map by a dotted 

 line running about 12 miles towards Cape Keerweer (WNW.). 

 Mr. Embley informs me that this conjecture is not his. It is more 

 than likely that Jardine's Thalia Creek, Tidal Inlet, Macleod Creek 

 and Kendall Creek (Kendall Creek, de jure = Sinclair Creek, de 

 Jacto) reach the Gulf between the Holroyd River and CAPE 

 KEERWEER, where the " men of the ' Duyjken ' ' turned back in 

 1606, and where the " men of the ' Per a? " landed on 5th May, 

 1623, and were attacked by the natives. 



1st January, 1865. The KENDALL, de jure, i.e., what the 

 Brothers called Kendall Creek and the modern map names Sinclair 

 Creek, was crossed a mile above their Camp 56 and a course of 

 NE.-J-N. was pursued through bloodwood and stringybark forest on 

 ridges of red sand resulting from the decomposition of sandstone. 

 Twelve miles on this course took the party to CAMP 57, on the small 

 and canal-like NEW YEAR CREEK coming from the NE. and running 

 S. by E. Four miles short of the camp another water-course was 

 named SINCLAIR CREEK. It looks as if the two creeks were one and 

 the same. A heavy rain set in during the afternoon and lasted 

 till midnight. 



Sheet 20 D of the 4-mile map shows an isolated east and west 

 line 5 miles long, marked " SINCLAIR CREEK, G 52-4," about 

 7 miles south-west of Camp 56 (which camp the information 

 to be gleaned from the Jardine and Richardson diaries places 

 approximately in 14 i' S. and 142 E.). A creek in the position 

 indicated in the 4-mile map, although it may be called the SINCLAIR, 

 DE FACTO, would, in my opinion, in all probability be what Jardine, 

 or, rather, Richardson, named " KENDALL CREEK." What the 

 Jardine Brothers named " Sinclair Creek " (SINCLAIR CREEK, DE 

 JURE) lies to the north of Camp 56. 



On 2nd January, the stage was 1 5 miles to NNE. over country 

 described by Frank Jardine as " an extensive plateau, sloping 

 away to the eastward, terminating abruptly in a perpendicular wall, 

 overlooking the valley on the head of which the party camped." 

 [Evidently a sandstone tableland. R. L. J.] He adds that the 

 country covered on this and the previous day " would make a 

 FINE CATTLE RUN, being watered at every 6 or 7 miles by 

 running creeks, besides a large swamp." CAMP 58, in 13 46' 46', 

 was pitched near the head of a small creek running NNE. 



$rd January. The creek was followed down to NNE. for 

 3i miles till it fell into a larger creek, running WSW., which was 

 named the " KINLOCH," after John Kinloch, Mathematical Master 

 of Sydney College. At 7 and 12 miles from Camp 58, small, 

 deep, running creeks were crossed, the first by an improvised 

 bridge. Four miles beyond the second of these creeks, CAMP 59 

 was pitched. Its latitude is given as 13 35' $4". The country 

 traversed this day consisted of sandstone ridges, timbered with 



