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January 22. There was some rain in the night, but the day 

 was fine, warm and breezy, and we got our things well dried. 

 The day was spent chiefly in horse-shoeing and prospecting. The 

 prospectors were up the creek for about 3 miles, where it has less 

 fall and the valley is wider than at the camp. The country 

 is of mica-schist, striking north and south, with numerous REEFS 

 of white granular quartz along the lines of bedding. No gold was 

 obtained. 



I crossed the creek, and went up a spur to a point on the hills 

 bearing W. 14 N. from the camp, and about 2 miles distant, and 

 had a very extensive view. The sea was visible through four 

 distinct gaps in the MACROSSAN RANGE. The following bearings, 

 among others, were taken : 



From the sea through the " opening in the hills " 



marked on coast chart (Hays Valley) . . . W. 2 N. 



From north point of the hill marked " 1,073 " l in 



coast chart W. 20 S. 



From Camp 25 on Hays Creek . 



From Camp 24 on Nisbet Creek 



From Cape Weymouth. 



From steep grassy SW. end of a wooded hill, 



off, with valley between . 

 From end of left wall of Attack Valley . 

 From View Hill, near Camp 13 . . 



I mile 



W. 30 N. 



W. 42 N. 



S. 7i W. 



W. 15 N. 



N. 30 E. 



N. 35 E. 



The sandstone cliffs of the GEIKIE RANGE could be traced 

 northward to W. 5 N. from the point of observation. 



HULL CREEK could be seen emerging from the hills about 

 3 miles to the south-west, and could be traced by a belt of scrub, 

 bordered by open plains, to its junction with the PEACH RIVER 

 below the mouth of GEIKIE CREEK, about 25 miles WSW. 



On returning from the hill, I accompanied Mr. Crosbie down 

 HULL CREEK to see if there was a practicable way for the horses 

 out of the valley. The valley was found to be extraordinarily 

 steep and narrow, and there was evidently no passage that way. 

 The creek falls about 50 feet a quarter of a mile below the camp, 

 and then takes a sudden bend to the east. It was clear that we 

 would have to go by the hill from which I had come. 



January 23. We left Camp 28 and ascended the spur to the 

 point from which I made the observations yesterday. Thence 

 we sidled down the hill (a descent of nearly 1,000 feet) to the 

 south-west. We then crossed a fourth-magnitude creek and touched 

 the south-west end of the wooded hill bearing W. 15 N. from the 

 hill we had left. From this point we struck west. In half a mile 

 we crossed a third- or fourth-magnitude creek. This and the creek 

 last referred to join about 2 miles to the south and fall into HULL 

 CREEK in I mile further. 



1 Not on the 1898 Chart. R. L. J. 

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