CHAPTER LIII 

 WILLIAM HANN'S EXPEDITION, continued 



EXCURSIONS IN THE VALLEY OF THE MITCHELL AND THE 

 RELATIONS OF THAT RIVER TO THE WALSH AND LYND 

 RIVERS 



LOWER CRETACEOUS FORMATION ON WALSH RIVER AND ELIZABETH CREEK. FOSSILS. 

 RICH LAND ON MITCHELL RIVER. RECONNAISSANCE DOWN THE MITCHELL. 

 INFALLS OF WALSH AND LYND RIVERS. POOR COUNTRY ON THE LYND. ERROR 

 IN LEICHHARDT'S CHARTING OF MITCHELL RIVER. RETURN TO CAMP 14. THE 

 MOVE UP THE MITCHELL. ROUGH COUNTRY. TELEGRAPH LINE. CAMPS 15 

 AND 16. RECONNAISSANCE UP MITCHELL VALLEY. BASALT. LIMESTONE. SLATE. 

 TAYLOR'S CARBONIFEROUS RANGE. (PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS.) ITS RELATION TO 

 MOUNT MULLIGAN. O.K. COPPERMINE. ANGLO-SAXON GOLD MINE. GROGAN- 

 VILLE. WARNER'S PEAKS (THE PINNACLES). ON FOOT TO A MOUNTAIN. FURTHEST 

 EAST. MOUNT LILLEY SEEN TO SOUTH-EAST. RETURN TO CAMP 16. 



(SEE MAP G.) 



FROM ELIZABETH CREEK onwards, Hann recognised the 

 same formation as that prevailing on the Barcoo in 

 fact the ROLLING DOWNS OR LOWER CRETACEOUS, although 

 he did not know it by either of these names. A large 

 collection of FOSSILS was made by Taylor and Hann, and these were 

 afterwards determined by Mr. Robert Etheridge, of the British 

 Museum. Mr. Robert Etheridge, Junior, gives an account of them 

 in Jack & Etheridge's Geology and Paleontology of Queensland, 

 p. 393. Hann appreciated the RICH LAND of this district, which 

 he described as " as fine a piece of pastoral country as any I have 

 seen in Queensland," and he estimated that there were at least 

 500 square miles of it. As a matter of fact, the good country 

 extended much further than Hann could see, and the whole region 

 between his Camp 10 and the Mitchell is now held as squatting 

 runs. 



Hann made his CAMP 14 the base from which he made EXCUR- 

 SIONS to determine the RELATIONS OF THE WALSH AND LYND TO 

 THE MITCHELL, in which he was perfectly successful. Accompanied 

 by Warner and Jerry, he rode DOWN the left bank of the MITCHELL 

 to the south-west, and in 8 miles saw the junction of that river 

 with the WALSH. He gives the latitude as 16 24' 39" S., the 

 actual latitude, according to the 4-mile map, being about 16 31' 30". 

 The "Diary" shows that the observation made must have been 



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