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A mile and a half to the north, through strong HEATH, we reached 

 a gully in cement. One of the old pack-horses (" Queensland ") 

 got bogged in the gully and had fairly to be dug out with spades. 

 We came back to the right bank (heading the gully this time), 

 and ran the gully down for a mile to the south-south-east to its 

 junction with a deep and rapid creek of the third magnitude. 

 Having found a practicable crossing of the latter, we camped on 

 the right bank. (CAMP 39. Latitude, by observation of Canopus, 

 12 34' S.) [HANN CREEK. R. L. ].] 



February 15. This was a sultry day. Leaving Camp 39, we 

 touched, in a mile and a half to the north, some low hills of porphyry 

 and hardened slate, from which the sandstone had been denuded. 

 Here we had a view (to the north-east) of the serrated mountains 

 between the mouth of the Pascoe and Temple Bay, which I named 

 the CARRON RANGE, in commemoration of the tragic circumstances 

 connected with W. Carron's stay, when Kennedy left him on his 

 last forlorn expedition in 1848. 



[Carron's narrative is the only record of the expedition extant. He was the 

 Botanist of the party. After a careful perusal of his story, which was first published 

 by Kemp and Fairfax, Sydney, in 1849, and which was reprinted (with a few omissions) 

 in 7 he Voyage of H.M.S. " Rattlesnake," by John MacGillivray, F.R.G.S., T. & W. 

 Boone, London, 1852, together with Jackey-Jackey's Statement, I have come to the 

 conclusion that in all probability Kennedy led his party northward near the shore 

 of Princess Charlotte Bay, up the valley of the Nisbet River through the Mcllwraith 

 and Janet Ranges to the mouth of the Pascoe. It must be remembered, however, 

 that Carron, who probably had no chart, did not keep the diary of the expedition, 

 though he kept a private diary, and was sufficiently employed in his botanical studies, 

 and wrote his story after months of privation, sickness and utter hopelessness, during 

 which he saw the death of all his companions but one. His narrative is, therefore, 

 not of much geographical value, and we are forced to conjecture what an intelligent 

 leader who did not live to tell his own tale would be most likely to do. Captain 

 Cook named Cape Weymouth and Weymouth Bay (into which the Pascoe River 

 discharges) on 1 7th August, 1770. Kennedy had a sextant, and must have had a 

 chronometer, or at least a very reliable watch, as his latitudes and longitudes (which 

 he fortunately appears to have, in some cases, communicated to Carron) are quite as 

 accurate as could be expected in the circumstances. R. L. J.] 



The timber on the porphyry and slate differed in character from 

 that on the sandstone. Moreton Bay ash, ironbark, and white 

 gum took the place of stringybark, bloodwood, grasstree and 

 pandanus. 



In half a mile more to the north a boggy flat was crossed, and 

 the sandstone recommenced, at a lower level than the porphyry, 

 and also (in hills on the left) at a higher, showing that the appearance 

 of the porphyry and slates was the result of denudation. 



A mile and a half further (HEATH AND BRUSHWOOD) the bottom 

 of the sandstone again appeared, this time resting on granite. 

 Two miles from the granite we crossed a HEATHY SWAMP. In 

 2i miles further, through HEATHY COUNTRY, we came on a flooded 



