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in width, drained by the Molkegna Creek, that takes its rise in 

 the Patawarta Range. Beyond this river valley is a relatively 

 level tableland into which the Molkegna Creek has cut, giving 

 the tableland a steep scarp on its southern limits. The scarp 

 shows dark-coloured beds at the top and shaly beds beneath. 

 In outline, this scarp face very much resembles the *'Reap- 

 hook" Range (or Patterton Hill) to the southward of Blinman, 

 and carries the same name from its peculiar shape. 



Still further north, at a distance of 12 miles from Pata- 

 warta, the southern portions of the Angepena system of hills 

 were in view. They form a remarkable circle, 8 miles in 

 diameter, the dip of the rock being towards the centre of the 

 area, forming a ''pound," similar to the Wilpena Pound. 

 Several creeks take their rise within the enclosed area, uniting 

 to form the Waukawoodna Creek, which finds its outlet at 

 the Waukawoodna Gap. 



The Patawarta "Range appears to be greatly disturbed 

 near the great hill. The dip on the southern side is vertical, 

 while on the eastern side the range is broken, forming a 

 jumble which passes into a bifurcation of the range; the 

 northern section running east, with a few degrees south, to 

 Point Well (on Point Creek), a distance of 6 miles, where 

 it abruptly ends at Ann's ('"Trig.") Hill. The southern 

 branch trends in a south-easterly direction, and when, at about 

 the same distance east as the northern branch, by a swing 

 round to the southward, it converges to the nearly parallel 

 Nildottie Range (or The Bunkers), so that the two ranges, 

 at the point of convergence, are only separated by the Nil- 

 dottie Gap through which the Artimore Creek passes. On 

 the western side of Patawarta, the range curves round to 

 the north-west, and then to the north-east, including Mount 

 Tilley and Mount Hack, both of which are "trig.'' hills, 

 and continues to Angipena Head Station, a distance of 20 

 miles or further. The Artimore valley widens out from the 

 "gap" in a north-westerly direction, until due south from 

 Patawarta, where it is 2 miles wide. The interval separating 

 the Nildottie (Bunkers) and Patawarta Ranges is occupied 

 by flags, calcareous shales, and thin limestones, with dips 

 from E. to N.E. At the Artimore Head Station, situated 

 within half a mile of the big Nildottie Ranges, outcrops 

 show flags and purple shales with a dip N.E. at 30°. 



• For several miles, on the return track, the course was 

 along the strike of the purple shales, along the Arti- 

 more Creek, with the Nildottie Range on the southern 

 side and the southern branch of the Patawarta Range on 

 the northern. The former possesses very striking features 

 — it has a dip slope of hard quartzite on its northern side, 



