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sudden and striking. A large white reef of quartz runs through 

 the schist on the eastern side of the dyke. From the summit of 

 the hill I could see HANN'S GARNETIFEROUS MOUNTAIN to the south- 

 south-west. 



Three and a half miles from Camp 45, we passed some fine 

 water-holes in a fourth-magnitude creek running SW. over a bottom 

 of grey granite. 



Five miles from the camp, we crossed the COLEMAN RIVER of 

 Hann, here running south-west, with a dry sandy bed divided 

 into four or five channels. On the left bank was an outcrop of 

 ferruginous mica-schist and much loose quartz. 



A mile beyond the Coleman, on the right bank of a third- 

 magnitude creek running SW. with plenty of water, we saw a 

 recent NATIVE ENCAMPMENT of very superior workmanship, with 

 accommodation for about twenty men. The dwellings were 

 practically tents. Two forks, sunk in the ground, approached 

 each other at the upper ends like a truncated letter A, and carried 

 two ridge-poles, over which the roof sheets of bark was bent. 

 Between the forks two parallel logs supported sapling joists, on 

 which sheets of bark were laid for sleeping bunks. 



Seven miles from the camp, we passed some enormous and 

 fantastic blocks of grey granite, and saw a flock of VERY LITTLE 

 BIRDS, with bodies apparently no larger than butterflies. I could 

 not, however, shoot any. My impression is that no bird so small 

 is known in Australia. [" Kalkah Old Station," now appearing 

 on the maps of the Lands Department, must be near this place. 

 It was taken up by Dickson and Sweetland in 1884. R. L. J.] 



In I mile more, we crossed, first from right to left and then 

 from left to right bank, a fourth-magnitude creek with large 

 water-holes. [One of the heads of what is called the MOREHEAD 

 RIVER, named by the Telegraph Construction Party. We had 

 CROSSED THE WATERSHED from the Gulf to the Pacific waters. 

 R. L. J.] 



In 2 miles more, we got a view of some mountains to the south- 

 east, apparently capped with horizontal sandstone beds. Here we 

 entered on ridgy country, which we cleared in 2$ miles. There 

 are a few well-defined QUARTZ REEFS on the ridges. 



Our course lay for the next 5 miles over flats which got poorer 

 and poorer as we advanced. We feared having to make a waterless 

 and grassless camp. Just before sunset, however, we found a 

 swamp and some burnt feed near it, and camped. (CAMP 46.) 

 [A tributary of the Morehead River. R. L. J.] 



Between the Coleman and the dividing ridge the land is pretty 

 fair gently rolling downs, well watered and well grassed. The 

 decomposition of the granite on the spot forms a soil of much 

 better quality than the decomposed granite " cement " does. 

 The prevailing trees are stringybarks, bloodwoods, a few iron- 



