FROM FOSSILBROOK 377 



of SPRINGFIELD. The LYNDBROOK STATION on the CHILLAGOL- 

 ETHERIDGE RAILWAY is about 4 miles north of the camp. 



27 'th June. Followed FOSSIL BROOK down for 10 miles NW. 

 through basalt country and camped on the left bank of the brook. 

 CAMP 2. The modern Fossilbrook Telegraph, Police and School 

 Reserves are about midway on this day's stage. 



2%th June. Leichhardt's LYND RIVER was met with 6 miles 

 north of Camp 2, opposite the infall of Fossil Brook. It was not 

 found possible to keep close to the Lynd, rough stony ridges forcing 

 a deflexion to the left. After 8 miles on a westward course, 

 CAMP 3 was pitched on HASKETT'S CREEK (which appears on the 

 4-mile map as FULFORD CREEK). 



2tyh June. Before a start was made, the party narrowly 

 escaped being burnt out, owing to some carelessness in setting 

 FIRE to the grass. After 7 miles of very rough travelling N. by W. 

 through stony ridges, the LYND RIVER was again touched, and 

 CAMP 4 was formed on its left bank. 



30^ June. Trying to keep the river in sight, but forced back 

 by stony ridges, the party gained 9 miles to WNW. and formed 

 Camp 5 on the left bank of the Lynd opposite the so-called 

 " KIRCHNER RANGE," which was found to be composed of " five 

 or six hills." The first 5 miles of the day's march were over 

 porphyry ridges, and the remaining 4 over mica-schist and 

 granite. The latitude of the camp is given as 17 22' S., but, 

 judging from the modern maps, seems to have been about 17 32'. 

 Hann's CAMP 5 was about 3 miles east of Leichhardt's camp of 

 5th June, 1845. 



Four days (ist to \th July) were spent in the neighbourhood 

 of Camp 5 prospecting for gold, but without success, the invariable 

 " dish " result being " black sand and garnets." It is not impossible 

 that some of the black sand may have been stream tin. 



$th July. The party crossed the LYND RIVER, here 330 yards 

 wide, near Camp 5, and struck to the north, through the KIRCHNER 

 RANGE, over " quartz ridges with open forest and good-looking 

 country for gold." In 9 miles a creek was crossed, which must 

 have been PINNACLE CREEK. In 5 miles more CAMP 6 was 

 pitched at a convenient water-hole. 



6th July. In a mile and a half to the north " a large sandy 

 river " was crossed and named the TATE. The Tate falls into the 

 right bank of the Lynd about 20 miles to the west. Four and a half 

 miles further north, the party struck the head of a creek (NoNDA 

 CREEK) falling to the north, with high sandstone ridges on its left 

 bank. The creek was followed to the north for 6 miles and a 

 camp was made at a native well in the bed of the creek, to which 

 the party were guided by a woman, who carried a child the 

 first ABORIGINALS seen on the journey. Four more were seen 

 later in the day. CAMP 7. 



