CHAPTER LXXXV 



J. T. EMBLEY'S EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, continued 

 IV. THE WESTERN RIVERS OF THE PENINSULA 



KOOLATAH STATION. ALICE RIVER. ALICE GOLDFIELD MISNAMED. Now PHILP GOLD- 

 FIELD. SURVEY OF LOWER MITCHELL, COLEMAN, EDWARD, HOLROYD, KEXDALL (?), 

 SOUTH COEN AND ARCHER RIVERS. LALLA ROOKH AND ROKEBY STATIONS. 

 HEADS OF ARCHER RIVER MISNAMED AND INCORRECTLY MAPPED. ARCHER AND 

 SOUTH COEN RIVERS. POSITION OF THE " PERA'S " COEN INLET. MAPOON 

 MISSIONARIES' CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEOGRAPHY. KINLOCH AND PICCANINNY 

 CREEKS. MEIN TELEGRAPH STATION. PINE CREEK CATTLE STATION. BATAVIA 

 RIVER. EMBLEY AT YORK DOWNS. SURVEY OF SEFTON CREEK AND OTHER CREEKS 

 IN MclLWRAITH RANGE. SURVEY OF WATSON RlVER. MERLUNA DOWNS STATION. 

 EMBLEY AND HEY RIVERS. SURVEYS INCIDENTAL TO FIXING SITES FOR MISSION 

 STATIONS. HON. JOHN DOUGLAS. NAMING OF ALBATROSS BAY AND EMBLEY 

 AND HEY RIVERS. MYALL CREEK BECOMES MISSION RIVER. PINE CREEK. CON- 

 STRUCTION OF TELEGRAPH LINE. FRANK JARDINE. DUCIE RIVER. BERTIE 

 HAUGH STATION. DALHUNTY AND SKARDON RIVIRS. 



ALICE RIVER 



KOOLATAH RUN (Sheet 2oB), comprising about 3,000 

 square miles of country on the Lower Mitchell River, 

 was taken up for McEacharn and Bell in 1886. (SEE 

 MAPS F AND H.) The station is on one of the Mitchell's 

 anabranches to which the first manager, FRANK JOHNSON, gave 

 the name of ALICE, after his wife. In the course of his 

 survey of the run, Mr. Embley traversed the Alice from its 

 infall on the northern side of the Mitchell upwards (north-east) 

 for about 22 miles, and more or less defined its higher course 

 and the courses of numerous tributaries by fixing the points where 

 they crossed the boundary-lines of blocks of country. What is 

 understood to be the main channel has been traced up to the south- 

 east as far as "Cootah No. 9" block (Sheet i8D), a distance of 

 about 70 miles from its junction with the Mitchell near the 

 station. Its right, or north-eastern, bank, while in the low delta 

 country, receives many tributaries l coming from the north-east, 

 and several of these latter (e.g., my CROSBIE CREEK, Sheet 2oB) on 

 leaving the low country can be traced up, by independent valleys, 



1 One of these, which Mulligan named Fahey Creek in 1875, was arbitrarily renamed 

 Ethel Creek by the owners of Kalkah Station, and bears that name in recent issues of 

 the 4-mile map. 



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