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mounted in about twenty minutes to the armpit, and I had intense 

 pain for three days and could not sleep at night. 1 



Another of the prospectors' HORSES took violently ill at this 

 camp, with every symptom of POISONING. 



January 28. Heavy rain began about three in the morning, 

 and continued to fall till midday. The sky cleared somewhat 

 in the afternoon, and I accompanied Messrs. Crosbie, Hume and 

 Layland to the DIVIDE, which lay about 2 miles to the east of our 

 camp. At one point we could see HIGH ISLAND, and the sea 

 looked only 4 or 5 miles distant. The western slope, up to the 

 very divide, is easy and lightly timbered (chiefly with oaks), but the 

 eastern slope is a steep escarpment clothed with dense SCRUB. We 

 skirted the escarpment for about 2 miles to the south, and tried 

 to get down in several places, but could neither see nor get down. 

 We also ran it north till it abutted against the range north of 

 our camp, which is densely scrubby, except on the spur by which 

 I ascended yesterday. With one consent we ABANDONED THE 

 ATTEMPT TO REACH CAPE WEYMOUTH, which could only have been 

 done at a ruinous expense of horseflesh. 



The night was fine, but too cloudy for observations of the 

 stars. [I conjecture, from Carron's narrative, that KENNEDY'S 

 PARTY, after a day's comparative easy travelling (3oth October, 

 1848) down the Lockhart valley, failed in the attempt to follow 

 the coast-line of Lloyd Bay northward and went up the valley 

 of the " small river " (3rd November, 1848) now shown in the 

 Lands Department maps as falling into the bay east of my 32n 

 camp, and thence crossed to the Pascoe valley near its mouth. 

 R. L. J.] 



January 29. One of the prospectors' horses being still too 

 weak to travel, we did not move the camp. Crosbie, Hume and 

 I visited the hills to the north-west, to see what sort of " get-away " 

 there might be in that direction. (Granite country, with some 

 REEFS of white quartz, with long interlacing dog-tooth crystals.) 

 We found ourselves looking into the valley of a large stream running 

 from north to south. On crossing to this stream we found it to 

 be a deep and rapid third-magnitude creek, with a fringe of bamboo, 

 palm and vine scrub. The creek, which we afterwards knew as 

 the main head of the PASCOE RIVER, takes its rise in a range of 

 rugged mountains which occupy the space from Weymouth Bay 

 to the south end of Lloyd Bay. This mountain mass I named 

 the JANET RANGE, after my wife. 



The creek was flooded, and, where we struck it, was too deep 

 for the pack-bags to be carried across by the horses without injury 



1 I applied the name " MACROSSAN RANGE " to the whole range between the LOCK- 

 HART RIVER and the Pacific. Parts of it have, however, since been named the " Adam,' 

 ^Meston," "Chester,"" High" and " Heming " Ranges. They must rank as 

 Peaks," " Mounts " or " Heights " forming part of the Macrossan Range. See note, 

 p. 548. R. L. J. 



