CHAPTER XCV 



DICKIE, DICK AND SHEFFIELD IN THE McILWRAITH 

 AND MACROSSAN RANGES, 1910 



DICK'S NARRATIVE. GEOGRAPHICAL VALUE OF THE TRIP CONSISTS CHIEFLY IN 

 IDENTIFICATION OF PLACES PREVIOUSLY KNOWN. START FROM MEIN TELEGRAPH 

 STATION. BATAVIA RIVER. Fox's OLD STATION. CAMP OF WILLIAM PARTRIDGE, 

 A PROSPECTOR. UP SEFTON CREEK. JACK'S NOB. MOUNT CARTER. ACROSS 

 DIVIDE OF PENINSULA. REACH LOCKHART RIVER AT GIBLET'S SANDALWOOD 

 LANDING. MACROSSAN RANGE. UP LOCKHART VALLEY. DODD CREEK BREACHES 

 MACROSSAN RANGE. " VALLEY HILLS " OF ADMIRALTY CHART. GOLD ON 

 UPPER LOCKHART. OLD WORKINGS. DODD CREEK. A SANDALWOOD DEPOT. 

 THE GOLDEN GATE REEF. MEN AT WORK. STORY OF DISCOVERY BY DODD AND 

 PRESTON. NISBET REEFS. ABORIGINAL CARRIERS. DOWN LOCKHART VALLEY TO 

 HEMING HEIGHTS. UP THE VALLEY. GRASSY, UNTIMBERED ALLUVIAL PLAINS. 

 NORTH-WESTWARD TO AND ALONG DIVIDE OF PENINSULA. GOLD PROSPECTS. 

 BACK TO " VALLEY HILLS " CAMP. Two BLACKS JOIN PARTY. GOLD IN REEFS. 

 GOLD ON SURPRISE CREEK. APPEL'S PINNACLES. GOLD PROSPECTS. DENSE 

 SCRUB. DISPOSAL OF ABORIGINAL DEAD. DOWN LOCKHART VALLEY. To 

 SUMMIT OF MC!LWRAITH RANGE. SANDALWOOD PACKER MET. ASCENT OF MOUNT 

 CARTER. BATAVIA RIVER. BAIRDSVILLE, THE SCENE OF WILLIAM BAIRD'S DIS- 

 COVERY OF GOLD AND SUBSEQUENT MURDER. CHOCK-A-BLOCK AND PLUTOVILLE 

 DIGGINGS. BACK TO MEIN. MAYER AND CLAUSSEN'S REEF ON HORSE CREEK. 

 VISITS TO EBAGOOLAH AND VIOLETVILLE. DICKIE'S REPORT. BIOGRAPHICAL 

 NOTES ON JAMES DICK AND LIST OF HIS WRITINGS. 



JAMES DICK'S REPORT 



THE MC!LWRAITH RANGE, named, traversed and sketched 

 by me in 1879-80, is still only known to geography 

 through (i) my sketch-map (which appears to have been 

 seriously misinterpreted by the Survey Office) and (2) the 

 wheel-and-compass surveys of MR. J. T. EMBLEY, Licensed 

 Surveyor. (SEE MAP C.) The latter in 1884-5 denned the 

 position and course of Sefton Creek and the head of the Batavia 

 River aud of Geikie Creek, one of the heads of the Archer River. 

 Between the Batavia River and Geikie Creek, approximately on 

 the meridian of 143 16' E. long., a north-and-south line was 

 run from 13 8' to 13 22' S. lat., to connect the river with the 

 creek, and a few miles to the west of this line, some further 

 lines were drawn in connection with the survey of " Bald Hill " 

 and " Bald Hill, No. I " pastoral holdings. 



My original sketch-map was not published with the official 

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