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east rises to much, greater altitudes than the sandstone, and must 

 have been dry land when the latter was deposited. 



In 2-J- miles to the north we crossed two forks of a rocky fourth- 

 magnitude creek running to the south-south-west. In a mile and 

 a half more we recrossed the western fork and camped. (CAMP 34.) 

 The day was fine, with only two showers. 



February I. Dull and heavy. Rain, most of the time we were 

 travelling, added to the discomforts of an otherwise troublesome 

 enough day. 



We travelled north-north-east for 2 miles over very rough, 

 stony, granite hills, most of the time ascending, till we found a 

 third- magnitude creek [CANOE CREEK. R. L. J.] in a narrow gorge, 

 tumbling impetuously to the west, and quite impassable. The 

 creek seemed to rise among the highest summits of the JANET RANGE, 

 and these looked too formidable. We turned, and made for the 

 low country down the valley, of which we could sometimes catch 

 a glimpse to the north-west. 



In a mile and a half to the west, along the crown of the left wall 

 of the valley descending for about 1,000 feet over very rocky 

 (granite) and partly scrubby country, we came down into the valley, 

 near the mouth of a fourth-magnitude creek coming from the south, 

 and draining a very deep valley. After much search (Crosbie and 

 Layland swimming) we found a passable crossing of the third- 

 magnitude creek [CANOE CREEK. R. L. J.] about a quarter of a 

 mile below the mouth of the tributary. 



Half a mile to the north-west we cleared a mountain of gneissose 

 granite, which terminated the right wall of the constricted part of 

 the valley, and the country lay before us pretty open to the north. 

 In I mile to the north we camped on the right bank of the creek, 

 which was afterwards named CANOE CREEK. (CAMP 35. Latitude, 

 by observation of Canopus, 12 49' 30" S.) 



After we had camped, I went on to the hills forming the right 

 wall of the valley, about a mile to the north of the camp, and 

 saw clear open country to N. 10 W. down the valley. Cliffs of 

 HORIZONTAL SANDSTONE were seen to the west, stretching in ever- 

 receding promontories to the south-west toward the GEIKIE 

 RANGE, with which they are probably connected. Down the 

 valley of Canoe Creek was a long stretch of low heathy country. 

 In about 5 miles the valley was joined by another, extending 

 east and west, but I was unable to make out whether it had its 

 outlet to the south-east or north-west, the promontories of the 

 JANET RANGE shutting out the view. 

 Rain most of the night. 



February 2. A wet day, and every sign of a week's rain. Con- 

 sidering this prospect, the flooded state of the creeks, and the boggy 

 nature of the country ahead, and, moreover, that one of the 

 prospectors' horses was too lame to travel, having been staked in 



