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north, we kept the left bank of the creek, when, on its trending to 

 west-north-west, we crossed it and continued our journey north- 

 ward. Attack Creek is one of the heads of the large creek which 

 falls into the Peach below our Camp 13. It was a little flooded 

 when we crossed and had rather more water in it than the Peach at 

 our upper crossing. 



For 2i miles to the north, after crossing Attack Creek, we had 

 very disagreeable travelling, fearing every minute to be engulfed 

 in boggy " graveyard flats," till we crossed a creek (SKAE CREEK) 

 flowing to the west, with scrubby banks. [Named after Harriman 

 M. Skae, a former colleague of the Geological Survey of Scotland, 

 since deceased. R. L. T.I 



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In a mile and a half more to the north we had reached the 

 range which formed the right wall of the valley of the Skae and 

 Attack Creeks. Here the rain began to fall heavily, as it continued 

 to do for the rest of the day and most of the night. 



We skirted the range to the north-west for 2 miles, when we 

 crossed a third-magnitude creek coming out of a deep valley in 

 the hills to the right. This creek was remarkable for magnificent 

 Leichhardt trees among its scrub timber. 



One mile and a half WNW. from this creek (crossing a fourth- 

 magnitude creek with quartz boulders in its bed) we came to another 

 point of the range. The rock here was slate and greywacke with 

 much quartz. We rounded this point (from north-west to east 

 for 2i miles) to a fourth-magnitude creek. In I mile more to east- 

 north-east we camped on the right bank of a creek of the fourth 

 magnitude. (CAMP 21.) 



January 7. It rained heavily till it was too late in the day to 

 make a start. We did our best to clean and dry our harness, stores, 

 clothing and blankets. In the afternoon I went on foot over the 

 hills to north-east and south-east of our camp. The hills were 

 of fine-grained granite in the central axis, and slate and greywacke 

 with much quartz (cavities coated with peroxide of iron) on the 

 outstanding spurs. When the mist cleared off I was able to take 

 an extensive series of compass bearings. VIEW HILL near our 

 1 3th camp lay due west. 



January 8. We determined to penetrate, and, if possible, to 

 cross, the MC!LWRAITH RANGE by a valley which we had seen from 

 View Hill, and on whose waters we were now camped. 



We rounded a point of the hills (from NW. to N.) for I mile 

 and thereafter kept a general course of E. 29 N. 



In 2 miles we crossed a third-magnitude creek (named the 

 FALLOCH), draining the north side of a granite mountain which 

 we named BEN LOMOND, as it bore a strong resemblance to the 

 mountain of that name in the Highlands of Scotland. CROSBIE 

 got touched with STINGING TREE in the scrub on the north side of 

 the creek. A lump like a hen's egg rose immediately under his 



