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the course of his survey of the " Walwa Plains " blocks. Both 

 above and below Mulligan's crossing, the Hann traverses swampy 

 inundable country, which in one place (above Mulligan's crossing) 

 extends to Station Creek (Warner River) 10 miles to the east. In 

 times of flood, the swamp must discharge its superfluous waters 

 by both the Hann (which is now called the Morehead) and 

 " Station" Creek (Warner River). 



Below Mulligan's crossing, the river appears to spread out into 

 many channels, some of which (<?.#., Sandy Creek) join the " North 

 Kennedy" River to the east. I crossed these channels in 1879, 

 10 miles north of Mulligan's crossing, without being at all sure 

 which was the " main " course of the river. According to the 

 official conjecture of the Lands Department (dotted line), the 

 north-westmost channel (known, of course, as the MOREHEAD 

 RIVER) is the most important, and it falls into the " North Kennedy " 

 in 14 38' S. lat. 



MOREHEAD RIVER 



This river is the larger branch of the stream which, after the 

 two branches had come together, Mulligan named the Hann. 

 (SEE MAPS E, F AND G.) The junction of the two streams has 

 been fixed by Mr. Embley's surveys. Twenty miles above the 

 junction, to the south-west, its position has been determined by 

 its crossing of the Cape York Telegraph line. For some 20 miles 

 more up the river (still south-west) it appears to have been traversed 

 about 1885 by Mr. Embley (who did not give it a name, and who 

 considered it to be the real Hann River) in the course of his surveys 

 of Zhapan, Zeredho, Vivanho, Mouro, Neph and Vibhraj blocks, 1 

 and in this region it has split up into numerous branches. I had 

 crossed the river twice in 1879 ft at - 1 S $' an ^ 15 13' S.) without 

 giving it a name. 



In charting the route of Hann's expedition of 1872, when he 

 left the Palmer and went north-westward and northward to the 

 heads of the Coleman and Lukin (Holroyd), I have come to regard 

 it as almost a certainty that from his 2ist camp, 16 miles north-west 

 of Lukinville, on the Palmer River, to his 24th camp, in lat. 

 15 12' S., he practically followed, to the north-west, the course of 

 the principal head of the Morehead (see Queensland 4-mile Map, 

 Sheets i8C, 2oA and 2oB). This portion of the river (?), however, 

 is still unsurveyed. 



BIZANT RIVER 



Midway between the coalescent mouths of the Morehead and 

 Normanby, the westmost of which is mapped as the North Kennedy 



1 These fantastic names belonged to (Egyptian ?) spirits called up by the table- 

 rapping squatter who first took up the land. 



