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From the western edge of the Hampton Plains to the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Southern Cross, a distance of about 150 miles, 

 the country is of this same character, except that in the lattei- 

 portion the lower le\-els include many salt-covered lake basins 

 and claypans. Tlie lowest portion of this depression of 950 feet 

 above sea-level was reached at Yilgarn, at the shore of Lake 

 Deborah. 



Tlie Yilgarn Hills are a low range, their general direction 

 being north and soutli, having along their eastern base a chain 

 of salt lakes. 



Near Yilgarn the auriferous schistose foi-uuition was entered 

 again, and this by travelling towards N.N.W. was left short h- 

 after our having passed Golden Yalley. 



After leaving the Yilgarn Hills, by proceeding in a X.N.E. 

 direction the granite tableland once more appears. The sand 

 and gravel plains begin again, with no other break than here and 

 there high masses of eruptive granite. 



This kind of country was found continuous (by travelling in a 

 N.E. and IST. direction) as far as Mount Kenneth, which means 

 that for a distance of 125 miles the character of the country was 

 the same. 



Before reaching Mount Kenneth and its surrounding heights 

 the Warne Flats were traversed — a fine piece of country, fit 

 even for agricultural purposes. 



Mount Kenneth is a table-tof)ped sandstone cliff of moderate 

 height, but of rather lengthened extent. There are several of 

 these flat-topped hills noticeable towards N. and IST.I'l, and also 

 low, flat, sandstone-capped ranges, one of which was crossed 

 before descending down to the Warne Flats (Camp 97-8). 



Travelling from Camp 101 in a westerly direction schist country 

 was again entered. Quartz and ferruginous quartz veins are 

 "\ery plentiful, and the country has a very promising appearance 

 from a prospecting point of view. These schistose rooks strike 

 N. and S., and the Canning Hills (Mr. Broad's Station) are the 

 highest elevation of this formation. 



From Broad's Station we travelled again north, or nearly so, 

 and the country passed through was again sand plains and l)old 

 granite hills. At Jones's Station the schist country was 

 touched again in Mount Magnet, it being the continuation of the 

 Canning Hills to the North. 



Between Jones's and Townsend's Station, which latter was 

 reached afterwards (the two places being only some 50 miles 

 apart), only granitic bed-rocks were met with, whilst tt) the east 

 Lake Austin was visible, bordered by low, apparently schistose, 

 hills. This latter formation was found outcropping again a few 

 miles beyond Townsend's Station, and the low ranges composed 



