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of GREYHOUND CREEK, whose head bends round to the north-west. 

 The creek has a deep rocky channel, and wide bamboo scrubs. 

 We could see the divide before us, but could not cross the creek, 

 and, after trying it in three places (carrying us about a mile to the 

 south), we had to camp on the left bank. (CAMP 27.) 



This was a fine night, with struggling moonlight. The sky 

 was quite clear for a short time. The ground had been so saturated 

 with rain that, when I got into my hammock, one of the trees to 

 which it was attached came out by the roots and fell over the 

 tent. Crosbie was still more unfortunate. He was driven out of 

 one tent by ants, and a tree supporting his tent, when it had 

 been repitched, came down with him. 



January 20. This was a fine day, with only one shower, though 

 dull and cloudy. Crosbie, Hume, Layland and Charlie went 

 ahead for about 8 miles, cutting a track through bamboo SCRUBS 

 for about 3 miles. I occupied myself in constructing working maps 

 from the charts, etc. The night was fine. 



January 21. A showery day. We left Camp 27 by the track 

 cut yesterday. After crossing GREYHOUND CREEK, we crossed a 

 branch of it twice. For 3 miles the path led through bamboo 

 jungle and SCRUB, in a general west-north-west direction. At the 

 end of the 3 miles we got on a ridge forming the right wall of a 

 valley, probably one of the heads of Greyhound Creek. We kept 

 the ridge for 3 miles, winding with it first west, then round to south, 

 then west again. At the head of this ridge we were practically 

 on the DIVIDE [between the Pacific and Gulf waters. R. L. J.j, 

 and a marked change took place both geologically and botanically. 

 The trees were almost all she-oaks. Thick clumps of ferns 

 (Athyrium) sometimes impeded our progress. The grass (Spinifex) 

 was very poor. The rock was granular quartzite, with a good deal 

 of reef-quartz scattered about. 



We continued our journey for about 5 miles more 1 across 

 ridgy country, on a general north-west course, the gullies now 

 falling to the west. We saw some outcrops of ferruginous mica- 

 schist, with a good deal of red-tinged quartz. Layland and 

 Hamil tried a gully below some quartziferous ridges, but got no 

 gold. On the western fall of the range the grass gradually improved, 

 and the she-oaks gave place to stringybarks, woolybutts, bloodwood 

 and apple-gum. We camped on a third-magnitude creek running 

 south-west, which I named HULL CREEK, after Professor Edward 

 Hull, 3 F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. 

 (CAMP 28.) 



We must have mounted about a thousand feet above the level 

 of the sea, and yet we had evidently crossed one of the lowest gaps 

 in the range. 



1 I must have exaggerated the distances, owing to the difficulties. R. L. J. 

 Died 1 8th October, 1917. 



