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POSITION OF COEN SETTLED BY MAPOOX MISSIONARIES. ALLUVIAL GOLD POOR 

 AND SCARCE. REEFS PROMISING. ANOTHER STOCK-TAXING. RATIONS MAY LAST 

 FOR A FEW DAYS. NORTHWARD. CROLL CREEK. MOUNT CROLL. HORNE 

 CREEK. PEACH (ARCHER) RIVER. GOLD IN RIVER SAND. STREAM TIN. CAMP 

 39. AURIFEROUS REEF. NORTH-WESTWARD. BEETLE AND IRVINE CREEKS. ON 

 BIRTHDAY MOUNT. SANDSTONE TABLELAND TO WEST, BREACHED BY PEACH RIVER, 

 NAMED GEIKIE RANGE. CAMP 40. RETURN JOURNEY (SOUTHWARD) COMMENCED. 

 ACROSS PEACH RIVER AND CROLL CREEK. SOUTH COEN RIVER. CAMP 41. QUARTZ 

 REEFS. CAMP 42. NATIVE GUNYAHS. NATIVES SURPRISED. HANN'S TRACK 

 CROSSED. MULLIGAN'S LUKIN (JARDINES' HOLROYD) RIVER. CAMP 43. QUARTZ 

 REEFS. EAST OF FUTURE EBAGOOLA TOWNSHIP. PROSPECTS OF GOLD. ON 

 WATERSHED OF PENINSULA. MULLIGAN'S KING RIVER. PERHAPS THE LARGEST 

 HEAD OF HOLROYD. BETWEEN HEADS OF COLEMAN RIVER AND DISMAL CREEK. 

 CAMP 45. ACROSS COLEMAN RIVER. NATIVE CAMP. PIGMY BIRDS. NEAR 

 SITE OF KALKAH OLD STATION. ACROSS WATERSHED OF PENINSULA. ON BRANCH 

 OF MOREHEAD RlVER. CAMP 46. SOUTH-EASTWARD. ACROSS MOREHEAD RlVM 

 (MAIN HEAD OF MULLIGAN'S HANN RIVER). SANDSTONE CLIFFS (EXTENSION OF 

 " CONGLOMERATE " TABLELAND). NORTHWARD IN SEARCH OF A GAP. ON THI 

 TABLELAND. SOUTH-WESTWARD. CAMP 48. PARALLEL TO FUTURE TELEGRAPH 

 LINE. ACROSS Two CREEKS (LATER BRADFORD'S DEAD HORSE AND HEALY 

 CREEKS). ACROSS MULLIGAN'S HANN RIVER. ACROSS KENNEDY'S TRACK. 

 CAMP 49. ACROSS THERRIMBURI CREEK. CAMP 50. RATIONS EXHAUSTED. 

 No BREAKFAST. BEND OF THE KENNEDY RTVER. ACROSS THE RIVER TO COOK- 

 TOWN-PALMERVILLE ROAD. BY THE ROAD TOWARDS COOKTOWN. MEET DONALD 

 MACKENZIE, WHO AFTERWARDS TOOK UP LAKEFIELD STATION, WHERE HE WAS 

 MURDERED BY BLACKS. ARRIVAL AT LAURA NATIVE POLICE STATION. INSPECTOR 

 FITZGERALD'S HOSPITALITY. FOPPERY OR FOOD ? LAURA TELEGRAPH STATION. 

 COMMUNICATION WITH MINES DEPARTMENT. COAL-PROSPECTING OPERATIONS 

 ON OAKY CREEK INSPECTED. ARRIVAL AT COOKTOWN, 3RD OCTOBER, 1879. 



(ANNOTATED REPRINT) 

 1881 



QUEENSLAND, REPORT ON EXPLORATIONS IN CAPE 

 YORK PENINSULA, 1879-80 



BY ROBERT LOGAN JACK, GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST 



PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND 



TO THE HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY FOR MINES 



FIRST EXPEDITION 



IX April, 1879, I was Honoured with instructions from you 

 to examine the Cooktown district with special reference 

 to the existence of coal and to report generally on the 

 geology of the district. 



Having devoted about three months to the coal question, 1 I 

 deemed it advisable to visit some of the outlying parts of the district 



1 See " Preliminary Reports of the Geological Survey of Northern Queensland " 

 >. 3, " On the Progress of the Search for Coal in the Cook District," and No. 4, " Second 

 Report on the Progress of the Search for Coal in the Cook District" Brisbane by 

 Authority, 1879. 



