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to sources in the DIVIDE OF THE PENINSULA. On one of these 

 tributaries, payable GOLD was discovered in 1904 by JOHN DICKIE, 

 who named the stream the ALICE RIVER, and the field was known for 

 some time as the ALICE GOLDFIELD. When the mistake was even- 

 tually admitted, the name of the field was changed to the PHILP, 

 and confusion would be avoided if the river were also named the 

 Philp River. 



In 1886, Mr. Embley completed the survey of the LOWER 

 MITCHELL from the infall of the Alice River down to the Gulf, 

 incidentally making it possible to chart a portion of the JARDINE 

 BROTHERS' route of 1864 with some approach to accuracy. 



COLEMAN RIVER 



In 1886, in the course of surveys of numerous " Kalkah " and 

 " Goathland " blocks, Mr. Embley accurately fixed the position 

 of the Coleman River, which he had run down in 1884. (SEE 

 MAP F.) 



EDWARD RIVER 



In the same year, the survey of the " Bathwick " blocks afforded 

 Mr. Embley the opportunity for fixing the position of the coast- 

 ward 55 miles of the Edward River, which he had discovered in 1884 

 and named after his brother. (SEE MAP F.) He noted that the 

 river, which flows from east to west midway between the Coleman 

 and Holroyd (or Lukin), heads in a low tableland of " pebbly 

 ironstone conglomerate," many miles west of the divide of the 

 Peninsula. 



HOLROYD RIVER 



In 1886-7, m tne course of the survey of pastoral blocks known 

 as " Bathwick," " Euorrii " and " Yarra," Mr. Embley completed 

 the location of the upper part of the Holroyd (or Lukin) River, 

 which he had traversed in its lower reaches in 1884. (SEE MAP 

 F.) It rises in the Hamilton Goldfield (discovered 1898-1900, 

 by John Dickie), near the modern township of Ebagoolah. In 

 this portion it had been crossed by Mulligan in 1875 and by 

 myself in 1879. 



In 1895, after running the " Thirty- mile Line" (which, 

 running parallel to the Gulf coast, was designed to separate land 

 on the west which might be selected, from land on the east which 

 might be taken up on pastoral leasehold), Mr. Embley surveyed 

 the Holroyd River down to the Gulf. 



KENDALL RIVER, DE FACTO 



In 1885, in the course of the survey of " Lockton " block, and 

 again in 1895, when running the " Thirty- mile Line," Mr. Embley 



