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third magnitude. As it appeared that we should have to bridge 

 this creek, and the day was getting late, we camped. (CAMP 67.) 



After we had camped, I went down the bog, and penetrated 

 through the mangroves and mud to the salt water. It was running 

 to the north-east, about 40 feet wide and a foot deep. Oysters 

 and other sea-shells were common among the mangrove roots. 



Half a mile below the camp, I heard the creek roaring over 

 rapids, and found a practicable crossing on a sandstone bar. A 

 very old NATIVE TRACK came up the right bank of the creek and 

 crossed at the bar. I crossed, and found another canal-like branch 

 of the creek, in the same flat (not quite so large as that on which 

 we were camped). This also was passable by a ford on a bar of 

 sandstone. 



March 27. The night was fine. Leaving Camp 67, we crossed 

 the two creeks in half a mile to the north-west. We were under 

 the impression that the salt-water creek we had just cleared was 

 the head of the Kennedy River or Inlet, but it proved to be only a 

 branch. 



For i mile further to the north-west we travelled on a sound 

 ridge (timbered with stringybark), by the edge of a bog which 

 fell into the branch of the Kennedy [or JACKET- JACKET CREEK] 

 we had just left. After a time the bog began to send its waters 

 to the west (although no fall was perceptible to the eye) into a 

 mangrove swamp with a slow stream. 



Perceiving that we were not yet clear of the Kennedy [Jackey- 

 Jackey Creek], Crosbie and I went for a mile further to the north- 

 west and struck the KENNEDY INLET [JACKET- JACKEY CREEK]. 

 It was a sheet of salt water about a quarter of a mile in width, and 

 running slowly from west to east. Presuming that the inlet is 

 correctly laid down on the Admiralty chart, this east-and-west 

 reach must be that which coincides for about a mile with the 

 eleventh parallel of latitude. The chart shows the river for about 

 2 miles to the south-west of the east and west reach, with a note : 

 " 2 feet at L.W. Springs. Tide rises about 7 feet. A boat can 

 proceed ii miles higher up, when the R. is lost in swamps." It 

 was evident that we had still 3! miles of the salt-water inlet and 

 some swamps to head before we were clear of the Kennedy. 



On returning to the party we altered our course to the south- 

 west. In a mile we had crossed the bog and emerged on a 

 stringybark ridge ; in 2 miles we crossed the ridge and struck 

 a bog falling to the north. The bog was headed in half a mile 

 to the south. 



In a mile to WSW. we crossed a stringybark ridge, ascending 

 and descending about 50 feet, and reached a fourth-magnitude 

 creek falling to the west and flanked by a PITCHER-PLANT AND 

 PANDANUS BOG. We ran down the right bank of the bog for I mile 

 to the west and half a mile to WNW. As, however, the country 



