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cloudy. On leaving Camp 60 we had good travelling on the top 

 of sandstone cliffs, nearly 200 feet high, without interruption to 

 the bay south of FLAT HILL, where we were stopped by the mouth 

 of a large mangrove-skirted creek. The tide was only about 

 a foot from its highest, and we waited two hours before we could 

 get across. This creek, which would form a haven for small craft, 

 I named the HENDERSON [after Mr. J. B. Henderson, the Hydraulic 

 Engineer of Queensland]. 



From Henderson Creek northward the cliffs were low, though 

 often precipitous, and the scrubby sand-hills at times came close 

 to the sea, and we had difficulty in getting up from and down to 

 the beach when necessary. 



We camped opposite an uncharted islet (horizontal sandstone) 

 at a place bearing S. 26 W. from the south-east end of TERN 

 ISLAND. [CAMP 61.] 



The red sandstone at Camps 60 and 61 has an oolitic structure, 

 and is highly ferruginous. There is evidently a very gentle dip 

 from the Carron Range, so that as we proceed north we gradually 

 pass over higher beds. 



From some high ground near Tern Cliff I saw the north mouth 

 of the ESCAPE RIVER [lNLET],and some high ground lying N. 20 W., 

 which I took to be FLY POINT. 



March 17. The horses had got so weak that we found it neces- 

 sary to give them a day's rest at Camp 61. Crosbie went on to 

 Shadwell Point. SHAD WELL PEAK is a high sand-hill. 



We regaled on oysters, crabs and lobsters while the horses 

 were recruiting. The day and night were fine, but a few showers 

 fell towards morning. 



March 1 8. We had now kept the beach far enough, as we 

 thought, to be able to steer a straight course to the west between 

 the Jardine and the Escape Rivers, for the head of the Kennedy 

 [i.e., lackey Creek, the mouth of which becomes Kennedy Inlet. 

 R. L. J.]. 



A course of W. 30 N. we imagined would take us clear of the 

 Escape River. We travelled for 4 miles in that direction on 

 well-grassed soft red sandy ridges, timbered with bloodwood, box, 

 stringybark and wattle. For a mile more to the NW. we kept 

 the crest of a white sand-ridge with a lagoon to the right, and a 

 scrub in a hollow to the left. 



For 2 miles W. 10 N., we traversed low, grassy forest country, 

 with thin belts of scrub running parallel to our course, till we came 

 to a salt-water creek fringed with mangroves. This creek (a tribu- 

 tary of the Escape River) was deep and boggy, and though of scarcely 

 more than the fourth magnitude, bore us for a mile to the south. 

 There the mangroves gave place to scrub with palms, etc., and the 

 creek becomes a swift-running fresh-water brook. We crossed it 

 just above its junction with a deep gully, 2 feet wide, over which 



