FROM TEMPLE BAY TO HEAD OF JARDINE 581 



a quarter of a mile to the north, through DENSE SCRUB, to a deep 

 flooded fourth- magnitude creek running strongly to the north-east. 

 This we ran down for a quarter of a mile to the north-east. On 

 crossing it we emerged on comparatively open stringybark country. 



In half a mile to the north the open country gradually became 

 HEATHY, and we were stopped by a third-magnitude creek running 

 strongly to the east-north-east, between scrubby banks. Having 

 crossed this, we got on without interruption for 3 miles to the 

 north, through low open HEATH on a sandy soil with NO GRASS. 

 At the end of the 3 miles we crossed a third-magnitude creek, 

 running east, with PALMS and a little open forest country and 

 GRASS on the left bank. 



The next mile, north-north-west, was utterly GRASSLESS, the 

 only vegetation being LOW HEATH ; then we headed a BOG in half 

 a mile to the west. 



In a mile to the north we reached a fourth-magnitude creek, 

 with palms (Seaforthia). The country was improving a little. 



In half a mile to the north-west, through open forest country, 

 most of the way up the right bank of a gully fringed with DENSE 

 SCRUB and PALMS, we crossed the gully, and reached in a quarter 

 of a mile to the north, a fourth- magnitude creek running east, with 

 a SCRUB, which we had to cut. 



A mile to the north, through forest country, ironbark, nonda 

 and teatree, with a thick undergrowth of BRUSHWOOD, with little 

 grass but spinifex, we crossed a gully falling to the east, with a 

 wide belt of scrub on either bank. 



The next half a mile, north-north-west, was through long HEATH. 

 In half a mile further to the west, over stony ridges with she-oak 

 and wire grass, we camped on a gully which had some coarse 

 grass on its left bank. (CAMP 51). [I believe, on the site of the 

 Brothers Jardine's Camp 74. R. L. J.] 



I ascended the hill behind the camp with Mr. Crosbie and took 

 a series of BEARINGS : 



Rodney Point bore E. 36 S. 



Macarthur and Bird Island . . E. 22 S. to E. 26 S. 

 Hannibal Island E. 10 N. to E. 12 N. 



No rain fell in the night. 



March 2. We left Camp 51. For the first two miles and a 

 half we crossed numerous gullies, and passed a bare promontory 

 of the RICHARDSON RANGE. 1 



In a mile to the north we sidled with ease up the scarp of the 

 RICHARDSON RANGE. 1 " Greenhide " stumbled into a gully. He 

 had carried Charlie till a few days ago, when he seemed weak, and 

 was accommodated with a light pack. When he fell into the gully 



* A shelf of sandstone lower than that which the Brothers Jardine named the 

 Richardson Range. R. L. J. 



