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old camp and some cases branded " H. Giblet." Here the party 

 camped on the 1 8th July (CAMP 29). But for the happy accident 

 of striking this track, says Dick, it might have taken some weeks 

 to get down, and some of the horses might have been lost. Up 

 to the moment when the salt water was sighted, the leader, according 

 to Dick, was under the impression that he was still on the head- 

 waters of the Batavia River. 



In descending the range, the party believed that they had 

 identified, and to some extent followed, the water-course which 

 I had named GREYHOUND CREEK on i8th January, 1880. The 

 creek seen by them was probably at least of equal importance, but 

 must have been about 10 MILES NORTH OF GREYHOUND CREEK. 



It will be remembered that I first saw and named the LOCKHART 

 RIVER on I4th January, 1880. As early as 1872, however, CAPTAIN 

 (afterwards Admiral) MORESBY had attempted, with the gig of 

 H.M.S. " Basilisk" to penetrate beyond the channels among the 

 mangrove swamps at the south end of Lloyd Bay, and had come, 

 reluctantly, to the conclusion that " there was no river," adding : 

 " the drainage of a hill 6 or 7 miles inland had created a swamp of 

 many miles in extent, covered by mangroves and intersected by 

 these salt-water creeks, and that was all." * 



MR. J. T. EMBLEY informs me, in a letter dated I3th June, 

 1915, that in 1913 he went up the river from its mouth about 

 8 miles, which was as far as a boat could go. He describes the 

 river as being, at its mouth and for some distance up, " a network of 

 channels, with islands, making it very difficult for a stranger to 

 navigate the correct channel." A " Town RESERVE," of 2,66o| 

 acres, covering the mouth of the river, was gazetted in 1889.; 

 Apparently it has not been surveyed, and Embley's description) 

 suggests that it must consist mainly of salt-water channels and! 

 mangrove sw: .ps. 



The whole of the MACROSSAN RANGE, so named by me on 8th 

 January, 1880, and extending from 12 55' to 13 38' S., has since 

 been sketched by marine surveyors, who have taken the liberty of 

 renaming all but an insignificant portion of it. According to 

 the legend on the Admiralty Chart, " Claremont Pt. to C. Direc- 

 tion," this was done by the Officers of H.M.S. Surveying Ship 

 " Dart " in 1896-7. From north to south, the names, which are 

 copied in the Lands Department's 4-mile Map of 1908, are as 

 follows : 



12 55' to 13 S. Heming Range, Heming Peak, North Peak, 

 Cleveland Hill. 



13 to 13 5'. High Range, High Peak. 



13 5' to 13 10'. Chester Range, Chester Peak. 



1 Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. 

 Cruise in Polynesia and Visits to the Pearl-Shelling Stations in Torres Straits, of H.M.S, 

 " Basilisk." By Captain John Moresby, R.N. London, John Murray, 1876, p. 125. 



