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definitely charted a portion of his Kendall River down to the 

 1 42nd meridian of east latitude. (SEE MAPS F, D AND C.) The 

 question of the identification of this river with the Jardine Brothers' 

 Kendall Creek is discussed in another chapter. 



SOUTH COEN RIVER 



As has already been mentioned, the BROTHERS GLEN AND 

 CHARLES MASSY took up LALLA ROOKH Station, near the head of the 

 Stewart River, which falls into the Pacific, in 1882. (SEE MAPS 

 C AND D.) Two years later, while still retaining Lalla Rookh, 

 they established an out-station, which they named ROKEBY, 

 45 miles to west-north-west, on waters falling towards the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria. The site of the station was on a large scrubby 

 creek which runs NNW. into the South Coen River, but which 

 bears no name on modern maps. This " Rokeby " became 

 " OLD ROKEBY " when, a few years later, the headquarters of the 

 run were finally shifted to a site on the South Coen itself, some 

 10 miles to the north. 



In surveying the blocks on Lalla Rookh and Rokeby runs and 

 the "St. Albans" and " Bydowns " blocks in 1884-5, and the 

 necessary comings and goings, Mr. Embley charted the South Coen 

 River from the township at the then deserted Coen diggings, 

 north-westward and westward, to its junction with the river which 

 had been named the ARCHER by the Brothers Jardine in 1865, a 

 distance of about 90 miles. Down to the junction of the two 

 rivers, the Archer has a slightly longer course than the South 

 Coen and consequently the reach of the river (60 miles) from the 

 junction to the Gulf is known as the Archer River. Elsewhere 

 I have explained the reason for calling the " Coen " of the diggers 

 by the name of " South Coen " to distinguish it from the insignifi- 

 cant water-course in about 13 4' S. lat., named the COEN REVIER 

 by JAN CARSTENSZOON in 1623. 



ARCHER RIVER 



In 1884-5 Mr. Embley not only ran the Archer down westward 

 from the infall of the South Coen to its outlet in the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria in 13 2c/ S. lat. but also traversed it up eastward, with 

 wheel and compass, to beyond where it breaches the Geikie Range, 

 and, passing to the east of the (modern) Cape York Telegraph 

 line, forms the reach which I named the Peach River 1 in 1879. 

 (SEE MAPS C AND D.) Here he left the Archer and followed a 

 branch, nearly as large, which I had named Geikie Creek in 1879, 

 almost to its head in that part of the DIVIDE OF THE PENINSULA 

 which was named the MC!LWRAITH RANGE. 



1 My name (Peach) has, of course, to be abandoned in view of proof of the identity 

 of the Peach with the Archer. 



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