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the northern side of the range, near the Petermann Creek, in order 
to examine the fossil beds which occur there. In the evening I 
made extensive astronomical and meteorological observations. 
Friday, June 8th.—Camp No. 28, Trickett’s Creek; bar. 28-00in., 
ther. 57°; height 1,963ft.; lat. 24° 27’ 48” S., long. 132° 3’ 30” E. 
An unpleasant sultry night was followed by a real summev’s day, 
the thermometer rising to 97° in the shade during the afternoon. 
After instructing Mr. Cowle to proceed with Mr. Watt to Bagot’s 
Creek by the northern side of Gill's Range, for the purpose of 
determining the fossiliferous beds in that locality, I directed the 
main party along the southern side through well-grassed mulga 
scrub and across luxuriantly-grassed open flats. With fifteen and 
a half miles covered we arrived at a small creek issuing from a 
gorge in the range. The ridge maintains a uniform altitude of 
between 5V0ft. and 600ft., and has a slight indeterminable escarp- 
ment both on its northern and southern aspect, while the creek 
contains numerous large gum trees and was named by Mr. E. Giles 
Bagot’s Creek. We camped near a small reedy and permanent 
waterhole at the entrance of the gorge. 
Saturday, June 9th.—Camp No. 29, Bagot’s Creek; bar. 27-92in., 
ther. 47°; height 2,088ft. Sufficient rain fell during the night to 
wet our blankets. All the members of the party were engaged 
throughout the day exploring the range, gorge, and creek to the 
northward. Numerous birds were obtaimed, and six young emus 
were captured alive by the black boys and handed over to the 
ornithologist for his collection. I was occupied all day and until 
late at night in bringing my work up to date. Marked a tree on 
the eastern side of the creek adjacent to the waterhole C. W., this 
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being our twenty-ninth camp since leaving Oodnadatta. In the 
evening the camp was prepared in the expectation of more rain 
falling, which seemed imminent. 
Sunday, June 10th.— Camp No. 29, bar. 27°98in., ther. 31°. 
The rain clouds disappeared during the night and an early depar- 
ture was made this morning. I arranged for Dr. Stirling to proceed 
with Mr. Cowle in advance for the purpose of enabling an inspec- 
tion to be made of several small gorges in the range. The main 
party travelled near the range in a general westerly direction over 
sandy soil densely timbered with mulga, desert oak, and low cassia 
bushes. At two and a half miles we passed Stokes Creek, a rather 
‘large gum creek draining the central portions of Gill’s Range. Five 
miles further on we crossed a small gum creek, the Kathleen, about 
half a mile south of the range. A permanent spring of water exists 
