12 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



tioQ, and photographs (of which a very interesting series was 

 shown at the late Exhibition,) imitates the features of some of 

 our Hawkesbury rocks in the plateau and ravines of the Blue 

 Mountains. 



" Carboniferous" ranges and " fossil shells" were found by Mr. 

 Taylor on the Normanby, a new river coming from the south-east, 

 and joining the Kennedy not far from latitude 14° 36' south. 



Connecting this locality with others of similar character, we 

 may assume a strike of about N.E. or N.N.E. for these sandstone 

 ranges. They seem to have a resemblance to the Arnheim's Land 

 ranges. 



Grold was prospected for on the return journey from Princess 

 Charlotte's Bay in several places, but without result. Considering 

 the physical difficulties presented by the country along the East 

 side of the main Coast Eange, and the necessarily imperfect way, 

 in which, under the circumstances, any search would be made, 

 together with the impossibility of examining any reefs that may 

 have existed (and such do exist on the Tate Eiver), this reported 

 want of success is not to be taken as a final determination : and 

 the fact that gold (and of a very good quality) was found on the 

 Palmer River, proves that there are sources yet undeveloped. 

 It is, therefore, to be hoped that the Queensland Government 

 will pursue the investigation, by means less harassing than those 

 to which Mr. W. Hann's zealous and energetic labours and those 

 of his Staff were exposed. 



They discovered much good, as well as some bad pasturable 

 country ; and in the difficulties of theEastern Coast Range they 

 merely experienced that which Kennedy suffered from in his 

 ascent from Rockingham Bay. 



In the course of the journey crocodiles were found to be 

 numerous, and on the Normanby River a number of heads of 

 these animals were found attached to a sapling ; and as the blacks 

 were numerous there, we may suppose it to be a trophy. The 

 existence of the " climbing kangaroo" is attested in the diary ; 

 and of a snake sixteen feet in length. There is, therefore, pro- 

 bably, a new field for the naturalist in this northern region. 



