FROM TEMPLE BAY TO HEAD OF JARDINE 579 



13 2' to 11 58' S. latitude. The eastern escarpment of the 

 sandstone shelf named the RICHARDSON RANGE by the JARDINE 

 BROTHERS lies west of the northern portion of the Sir William 

 Thomson Range and extends from opposite the Brothers' Camp 69 

 to opposite their Camp 75. About 7 miles ESE. of Camp 48 was 

 what Kennedy mistook for Bligh's Pudding Pan Hill, and where 

 Costigan, Dunn and Luff were left to perish. R. L. J.] 



February 28. The morning was fine. In a mile and a half 

 N. 10 W. through sandy country, poorly grassed, timbered with 

 stringybark, bloodwood, myall and she-oak, and half a mile to 

 NNW., we reached and ascended the scarp of the low sandstone 

 tableland which we had left yesterday. The escarpment of the 

 SIR WILLIAM THOMSON RANGE was visible about 6 miles off to the 

 west. 



In I mile further, to NNE., a curious bare dome-shaped hill 

 was seen about 3 miles to the west. The timber was grasstree, 

 small box and a few stunted Banksias, with HEATH. 



In a mile and a half more to NNW. (the grasstree having 

 disappeared) we crossed two creeks of the fourth magnitude, 

 running to the east. After half a mile of HEATH, on the same course, 

 we entered an undulating forest country. HEAVY RAIN began here. 



From this point we traversed poor forest country with THICK 

 UNDERGROWTH, approaching scrub in places, for 2 miles NNW. 

 and 2f miles to the N., crossing five creeks of the fourth magnitude, 

 falling east. We then entered a stretch of more elevated open 

 forest country affording a view of the sea. Large stringybark trees 

 appeared among the timber. After half a mile to the north, over 

 country of this description, we turned to the west to avoid a SCRUB 

 (in which CYPRESS PINES were numerous). In a mile and a half to 

 the west we camped on the right bank of a gully. (CAMP 49.) 



All the country traversed to-day was composed of brown gritty 

 sandstone. The forest country was sandy and the heath stony. 



February 29. We left Camp 49, and in half a mile to the 

 NW. passed a SCRUB and crossed the head of a BOG. For the next 

 mile north we kept the left bank of a gully draining from the bog 



through HEATHY BRUSHWOOD. 



For a mile more, to NNE., we kept (through HEATH) the edge of 

 a BOG, apparently continuous with the last. To the left was very 

 thick BRUSHWOOD. For the next half mile north we kept the left 

 bank of a fourth-magnitude creek, draining the bog, till the creek 

 fell into a somewhat larger creek coming from the south-west 

 (HEATH AND BRUSHWOOD). In crossing to the left bank of the latter 

 creek I lost my pocket compass and had to take Macdonald's. 

 RAIN began here, and continued till after we had got into camp. 



In a mile and a half more to NNW., through HEATH AND BRUSH- 

 WOOD, we crossed a creek of the fourth magnitude, running strongly 

 to the east, over a sandstone bottom. In a mile further, on the 



