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from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. 
tifully grassed, of great extent, well provided with water along 
the creeks, the brooks, and the river, but in the dry season 
waterless in its centre. This country is a pattern for cattle and 
sheep stations. The elevation of it (at least 2000 to 2800 feet 
above the level of the sea) genders it cool and fit for sheep. The 
ground is sound, the forest is very open. It is in the centre of 
the York Peninsula, equally distant from the east coast and from 
the Gulf of Carpentaria, to which, as I shall presently show, a 
system of rivers, well provided with water, forms an easy commu¬ 
nication, with the exception of some mountainous passages, which 
later travellers will change with easier roads farther off the 
rivers. 
It would be tedious to mention the numerous mountain ranges 
along the Burdekin, to some of which I gave names, leaving many 
of them nameless. 
About fourteen miles from “ Separation Creek,” in a north-north¬ 
west direction, we came on gullies and creeks, which collected into 
a water-course going to the westward. In latitude 17 deg. 58 
min. we found a fine reedy water-hole, below which another bigger 
creek joined from the nortlward. The bed became very broad, 
in some places more than half a mile, with several channels which, 
however, collected again in passing through mountain gorges. I 
called this river “ the Lynd,” in acknowledgment of the infinite 
kindness which this gentleman has bestowed upon me. I followed 
it down from 17 deg. 58 min. to 16deg. 30 min., where it joins 
a river coming from the east. 
The Lynd works its way in a north-westerly course, through a 
very mountainous country, from 17 deg. 58 min. to 17 deg. 9 
min. 17 sec. There is, however, plenty of grass and water to 
feed any number of cattle or horses which might be driven down 
to the gulf. Several big running creeks come in from the west¬ 
ward. They will probably allow a more immediate communica¬ 
tion with the head of the gulf. From 17 deg. 9min. 17sec. fine 
flats, well grassed, accompany the river. They are mostly tim¬ 
bered with box, apple gum (a new species of gum, with the foliage 
of the apple tree of Darling Downs, and with the black butt of 
the Moreton Bay ash,) blood-wood, and Occasionally stringy bark. 
