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by a horizontal cake of sandstone which I believe to be continuous 

 with the Battle Camp Range and other fragmentary ranges of the 

 district which I have classed with the Desert Sandstone. 1 The 

 question can only be settled on the production of sufficient palae- 

 ontological evidence, read in the light of careful stratigraphical 

 work. 



On iStb September, the party travelled 10$ miles south-eastward 

 up the left bank of the NORMANBY. Crossing the river about 2 

 miles south of where the railway now crosses, CAMP 43 was pitched 

 on the right bank. Here they were little more than a mile from 

 the head of Cook's ENDEAVOUR RIVER (near Alderbury Railway 

 Station), the DIVIDE BETWEEN THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY 

 WATERS (Normanby River) AND THOSE OF THE PACIFIC (Endeavour 

 River and Oaky Creek) being here very close to the right bank of 

 the Endeavour. 



On iqth September, after crossing the DIVIDE, on a south-easterly 

 course, a steep descent led to OAKY CREEK, which was followed 

 eastward to a point 14 miles from Camp 43. CAMP 44 was 

 on the bank of the creek south of CUNNINGHAM'S RANGE, and 

 about 4 miles west of the modern township of Hamilton. The 

 prevalence of Casuarina trees led Hann to add one more to the 

 already intolerably long list of Oaky Creeks. He and Taylor 

 visited the range, which is composed of horizontal sandstone. 



Eight and a half miles further down OAKY CREEK to the east, 

 brought the party on the following day (zoth September} to CAMP 45 

 between the modern HAMILTON TOWNSHIP and the junction of 

 Oaky Creek with the ANNAN RIVER, a distance of about 8 miles. 



In 3 miles further eastward down OAKY CREEK, the party found 

 themselves, early on 2ist September, on the left bank of the ANNAN 

 RIVER, into which Oaky Creek falls, and which here runs northward, 

 although immediately after its junction with Oaky Creek it turns 

 and flows eastward into the sea. HANN WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED 

 THAT this river (THE ANNAN) " WAS no other than THE ENDEAVOUR, 

 of which so much has been said and heard from time to time.'' 

 To a traveller approaching the sea from the landward side the 

 MISTAKE was not an unnatural one, although it would have been 

 impossible for Hann to have made it if he could have taken his 

 latitude accurately. 



Near their mouths, the ENDEAVOUR and the ANNAN both run 

 eastward to the sea and are only 5 miles apart. A high mountain, 

 MOUNT COOK, lies between the mouths of the two rivers, and on 

 the northern and north-western foothills of the mountain the 

 modern town of COOKTOWN is picturesquely situated. Oaky 

 Creek, above its confluence with the Annan, prolongs the valley 

 of the latter to the west, parallel to the valley of the ENDEAVOUR, 

 which is now followed by the railway from Cooktown to Laura. 



1 Op. cit., p. 175. 



