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R. L. J.] must breach the sandstone range not further north than 

 a gap which lay about 12 miles off to S. 15 W. 



To the west the country is for the most part sandstone table- 

 land, sloping almost insensibly to the west, but presenting steep 

 escarpments, which mark the outcrop of thick beds, to the east. 

 The edge of a high tableland (which I named the WILKINSON 

 RANGE, in honour of the Government Geologist for New South 

 Wales) [C. S. Wilkinson, since deceased. R. L. J.], about 25 miles 

 off, subtended an angle of from W. 10 N. to W. 10 S. The eastern 

 escarpment of this range must lie about 142 33' E. longitude, and 

 12 or 15 miles east of Messrs. Jardines' route northward in 1865 ; 

 although the Messrs. Jardine saw nothing approaching the character 

 of a hill till 40 miles further north. This is easily explained by the 

 fact that they kept on the western slope of the range, which corre- 

 sponds with the almost insensible dip of the strata. [The escarp- 

 ment named the Wilkinson Range now appears to be that west of 

 the telegraph line, constructed in 1887, between the Batavia 

 River and Cox Creek. R. L. J.] 



I could see lower sandstone country, dead flat or apparently so, 

 to the north and south of the Wilkinson Range for about 15 miles. 



Down the valley of CANOE CREEK two mountains were seen in 

 a line due north, one about 6 and the other about 15 miles off. 

 Immediately to the north of the former the ground falls away 

 to the east, and the creek must go that way, as there is no other 

 possible outlet for it. 



Between the north-west of the two hills and the eastern end 

 of a high, rough sandstone escarpment about 3 miles further off, 

 and bearing N. 7 W., is flat, LOW SANDSTONE COUNTRY, extending 

 eastward to the base of the mountains at FAIR CAPE. 



The night was threatening, but there was no rain. 



February 7. This was a fine, warm day. The flood having 

 fallen considerably, we left Camp 35 and crossed to the left bank 

 of CANOE CREEK and continued our course down the valley to 

 the north. In 3 miles of travelling we passed the hill to which 

 we had advanced on the 4th. In a mile and a half more, over 

 dead-flat sandy country timbered with bloodwood, stringybark, 

 and pandanus, we reached a fourth- magnitude creek running 

 east into Canoe Creek. Here one of my old pack-horses 

 (" Jimmy "), which had previously bogged in a gully and had to 

 be unpacked, tumbled back from the bank into the creek and filled 

 the bags containing my books, maps, instruments and clothes 

 with water. A spur of the sandstone-capped range on the west 

 comes down to Canoe Creek here (gneiss, porphyry and slate, with 

 much quartz ; the strike of the slates NE. and SW.). The pros- 

 pectors tried some gullies, but got no gold. 



In half a mile " Jimmy " tripped over a sapling and tumbled 

 over into a gully. We unpacked him for the third time, and did 



