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this creek, but got no gold. (CAMP 30.) [A head of SEFTON CREEK. 

 -R. L. ].] 



In the afternoon I ascended the mountains north of the camp, 

 and took the bearings of a number of known positions to the south. 

 The whole of this range is of rocks which have not undergone 

 extreme metamorphism. The commonest is a sandy mica-schist, 

 and a coarsely granular quartzite comes next. There are also 

 some sandy slate-rocks and some greywacke. QUARTZ REEFS are 

 very numerous, but the quartz is not of a promising character. 

 Teatree and she-oak are the commonest trees on the ridges. The 

 highest hills of the range (seen across a valley to the north) are 

 almost bare of timber. 



'January 25. Shoeing horses, etc. In the afternoon Crosbie 

 and I ascended the bare hills north of the camp, and at a point 

 3 miles to the east had a view of CAPE WEYMOUTH, LLOYD BAY 

 and the MACROSSAN RANGE. We saw also to the north a wide, 

 heathy flat (which afterwards proved to be the valley of the 

 PASCOE) dividing the MC!LWRAITH RANGE from a range to 

 the north. [The JANET RANGE. R. L. J.] Here we saw for 

 the first time the pitcher plant (Nepenthes Kennedya), which after- 

 wards became very familiar. 



There was heavy rain in the afternoon, with showers at night. 



January 26. A dull, showery day. We left Camp 30, and 

 after skirting the range for 3 miles west, crossed a third-magnitude 

 creek running south-west. In half a mile more we recrossed the 

 same creek, here running north-north-east, and a good deal larger 

 than at the upper crossing, having probably received the creek we 

 left in the morning. In half a mile to the north-west, on a grassy 

 plot with Moreton Bay ash and box timber, we came on tent-poles 

 and ridges for eight tents, more than one season old, supposed to 

 be the camp of ROBERT SEFTON and his party when they left the 

 Coen rush in April, 1878. Here we crossed the creek again. It 

 flows through a gap in green hills to the west. I named it SEFTON 

 CREEK. From subsequent correspondence with Mr. Sefton, Mr. 

 Crosbie ascertained that the former believed it to join the river 

 to the south (the Peach). [It joins the BAT AVI A RIVER. R. L. J.] 



We ran to the north for 3 miles up a valley in gently undulating, 

 well-grassed country, lightly timbered with white gum, Moreton 

 Bay ash and box. A small water-course, a tributary of Sefton 

 Creek, lay to the left of our course. A range of green hills, 

 with alternate scrubby and bare patches, formed the right or 

 western wall of the valley. The bottom of the valley was of 

 grey granite. 



At the head of the valley we crossed a low divide (ferruginous 

 greywacke and mica-schist, with much white quartz), with grass- 

 tree (Xanthorrhcea), stringybark and bloodwood. [This was the 



DIVIDE BETWEEN THE PACIFIC AND GuLF WATERS. R. L. J.] 



