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and a quarter further, to a granite knob about 300 feet high, 

 which I ascended (naming it " View Hill "). A very extensive 

 series of bearings was obtained from this eminence, and utilised 

 in the construction of the MAP ACCOMPANYING THIS REPORT. 

 [This knob is named "Fox's LOOKOUT" on recent maps. 

 R. L. J.] 



In half a mile we crossed a creek of the third magnitude with a 

 sandy bottom the forks and ridge-poles of several tents still 

 standing. [" SPRING CREEK " of recent maps. R. L. J.] 



The track here altered its course to N. 16-$ W. (true). In 

 2 miles it crossed a sandy third-magnitude creek with water. 



In one mile and a half on the same course we came to a large 

 first-magnitude creek or river, not less than 60 yards wide, with 

 a goodly stream of water running to the east. It has se\ eral chan- 

 nels, with large Leichhardt trees on banks and islands. The bottom 

 is granite. One horse laden with flour sank in a quicksand, and 

 had to be unpacked in a hurry and helped out. This is the river 

 which HANN named the STEWART. It was the northern limit of 

 his journey. 



All the creeks crossed on this day's march, except the one we 

 left in the morning, fall into the Stewart. 



One mile to magnetic north brought us by a very gentle slope 

 to the summit of a granite ridge, about 150 feet above the river. 

 Another mile N. 16$ W. (true) took us across a valley, about a mile 

 from its head, which drains to WSW. into the Stewart, and up to 

 the summit of the ridge forming the right wall of the valley. 

 From this point (about 500 feet above the Stewart) another series 

 of bearings was obtained. 



The granite of this ridge is very coarse-grained, with large 

 flakes and crystals of tin-white mica and crystals of orthoclase 

 felspar, sometimes 2 inches in length. The felspar crystals are 

 almost always flecked with mica. A good deal of white vitreous- 

 looking quartz is scattered about. 



Half a mile north took us, by easy zigzags, across the head of 

 another valley to the crown of another ridge, about 200 teet higher. 

 In half a mile to N. 39 W., we came to a gully with two water-holes, 

 falling to the south-west. As there was fine burnt feed here for 

 the horses, we camped on the right bank of the gully. We pros- 

 pected up the gully, and got much black sand but no gold. (CAMP 

 36 : box, broad-arrow, J. 8/9/79. Latitude 14 5' 20" S.) 



September 9. The track continued to N. 39 W. and brought us 

 in half a mile to the crown of a tableland of granite with " blows " 

 of quartz. [SEE MAP C.] The timber is ironbark, bloodwood 

 and small white gum. The track next led due north for a mile 

 over similar country, with similar timber, when an outcrop of 

 mica-schist was seen, striking north-north-west. 



In a quarter of a mile more, magnetic north-west, View Hill, 



