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the river after 10 miles of very rough country. The CAMP for 

 the night was on the left bank. 



The slate country having become too rough for the horses, 

 HANN AND TATE set out ON FOOT next day ($oth July), and after 

 7 miles of the roughest walking that they had ever done (mainly 

 east), reached a HILL from which they took their LAST VIEW up 

 the valley of the MITCHELL, as they supposed, but really of its 

 tributary the HODGKINSON. A conspicuous mountain, estimated 

 to be about twenty miles to the S.E., was named MOUNT LILLEY. 

 The distance and bearings given place this mountain on the divide 

 between the Mitchell and Hodgkinson, north of the mouth of the 

 " Eastern Hodgkinson." 



After walking back to the camp, Hann and Tate took the horses 

 on to the camp of 28th July. Next day (^ist July), the whole 

 party rode back to Camp 16, where they found everything safe. 



