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report of which it was an essential part, and has apparently been 

 lost between the various departments through which it passed. 

 I have, however, been able to reconstruct it, from my field note- 

 books, and this new compilation, as given herewith, in the region 

 covered by the Mcllwraith Range, differs materially from the 

 current issue of the official map, Sheet 2oC, although it in no 

 instance conflicts with Mr. Embley's surveyed lines. 



In 1910, JOHN DICKIE, JAMES DICK AND ARTHUR H. SHEFFIELD 

 made a tour through the Mcllwraith to the Macrossan Range, 

 with some Government assistance. Dickie, the leader, so far as 

 I am aware, made no report except the few lines paraphrased at 

 the end of this chapter. The history of the expedition was written 

 by Dick in a report dated Cooktown, I2th November, 1910. An 

 abstract of this report was published in the Queensland Government 

 Mining Journal of 1 5th December, and was accompanied by a 

 sketch-map on the scale of 8 miles to an inch, drawn at the 

 Geological Survey Office, Brisbane. Mr. Dick also read a paper 

 on the subject before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, 

 Queensland Branch, on 3 1st May, 1911. 



Numerous difficulties, arising out of my attempt to follow the 

 expedition on the map, led to a correspondence with Mr. Dick, 

 and it was seen that the printed abstract must have omitted some 

 portions of the narrative which were of importance from a geo- 

 graphical point of view, and that the writer's meaning, in some 

 cases, had not been fully grasped by the editor. Mr. Dick, to whose 

 letters of I9th February, 1911, and 5th and 1 2th May, 1912, I am 

 particularly indebted, was kind enough to send me the 4-mile 

 map which had accompanied his report, and which had been 

 returned to him. Through the courtesy of Mr. Henry Marshall, 

 Under- Secretary for Mines, I have been able to peruse the 

 manuscript of Mr. Dick's report. 



Finally, all the above sources of information having been 

 exhausted, I borrowed the DIARY which Mr. Dick kept while in 

 the field. From the material which had thus accumulated in my 

 hands, I have been able to add much useful information to the map. 



The party LEFT COOKTOWN on Stb June, 1910. From the 

 railway terminus at the Laura they followed either the Telegraph 

 line or roads. Passing Yarraden and Ebagoolah (Hamilton Gold- 

 field) (MAP F) and the township of Coen (MAP C), they reached 

 MEIN TELEGRAPH STATION on 2/th June. 



Leaving MEIN on 1st July, the course taken was E. by N., first 

 crossing a portion of the GEIKIE SANDSTONE TABLELAND. Near the 

 head of CLAYHOLE CREEK, a tributary of the Batavia River, the 

 party saw, about 6 miles from Mein, the remains of a NATIVE POLICE 

 CAMP, which must have dated from about 1887, as it was erected 

 for the protection of the Telegraph Construction party. FROG 

 HOLLOW and Fox's CREEK, tributaries of the Batavia River, were 



