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Jth July. Moved camp 3 miles down Nonda Creek (northward) 

 to where water was plentiful. CAMP 8. 



Sth July. Moved 6 miles NNW. down Nonda Creek. CAMP 

 9. (SEE MAP G.) 



qth July. NONDA CREEK was crossed from the left bank to 

 the right after it had been followed down for 2 miles NNW. of 

 Camp 9. Four miles north of the crossing, Hann reached a river, 

 with a sandy bed over a quarter of a mile wide, which he named 

 the WALSH after the Hon. W. H. Walsh, Minister for Works and 

 Goldfields. He crossed the river and camped on its north, or 

 right bank. CAMP 10 was about 2 miles down the river from where 

 the Palmerville-Junction Creek TELEGRAPH LINE now crosses. 

 The Walsh River is, no doubt, the creek on which KENNEDY 

 camped on 23rd August, 1848, about 3 miles below the mouth 

 of Eureka Creek. It drains tin, copper, lead and silver-bearing 

 country extending from Watsonville in the east to Arbouin in the 

 west, a distance of 80 miles. 1 



The loth July was given to prospecting (which was unsuccess- 

 ful) in the neighbourhood of Camp 10. 



On nth, 12th and i$th July, Hann, with Taylor and Jerry, 

 rode up the valley of the Walsh. They appear to have penetrated 

 as far as MOUNT REDCAP, a distance of about 27 miles to east by 

 south. This conjecture is based not so much on the diary and 

 accompanying map as on the nature of the country described, 

 which is exactly such as would be encountered in a journey of the 

 distance and in the direction indicated. The early part of the 

 journey was marked by mica-schist rising into hills capped by 

 horizontal sandstone. Towards Redcap were the hills of MAGNETIC 

 IRON ORE and LIMESTONE which became familiar objects to me a 

 few years later. The party, having recrossed to the right bank 

 of the river, returned to CAMP 10 on I4th July and found " every- 

 thing safe and in order." A few NATIVES were seen on this excur- 

 sion, but they ran away in haste. 



On i$th July, the expedition moved 5 miles NW. down the 

 river and camped (CAMP n) on the right bank of the WALSH 

 opposite what is now the NW. boundary of Blackdown pastoral 

 run. For the last 2 miles of this stage they had been on " a lime- 

 stone formation similar to that on the Barcoo and Upper Flinders " : 

 in fact in the " ROLLING DOWNS " OR LOWER CRETACEOUS 

 FORMATION. A collection of FOSSILS, including Ichthyosaurian 

 vertebrae, was made by Taylor, a few being carried on and the 

 remainder buried beneath the ashes of the camp fire. 



On i6th July, the camp was moved 9 miles NW. down the 

 Walsh, CAMP 12. Some huts were seen during the day and NATIVES 



1 See Geological Survey of Queensland, Publication No. 119, viz. " Report on the Tin 

 Mines of Watsonville and Various Tin, Silver, Copper and Gold Mines at Herberton, 

 Montalbion, Irvinebank, Muldiva, Calcifer, Chillagoe, California Creek, the Tate River, 

 etc.," by Sydney B. J. Skertchley. Brisbane, by Authority, 1897. 



