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hills, distant seven and a half miles, bearing 290° 20’ and 295° 
51’ respectively. J have named the northern and most conspicuous 
of the latter Mount Gordon, after the Hon. J. H. Gordon, M.L.C., 
Chief Secretary of South Australia. These hills are of very con- 
siderable elevation, and are surrounded by dense scrubs; Mount 
Musgrave bears 2° 10’, Crown Point 30° 10’, Mount ‘Townsend 
66° 50’, Mount Daniel 85° 45’, and Mount Beddome 110° 40’. 
After Mr. Watt had completed his geological examinations we 
resumed our journey on a bearing of 268° 10’ towards a high table 
top bluff. At the end of a mile’s travelling we passed a large 
claypan with quantities of ironstone nodules. Further on we left 
both to the south and north numerous detached hills. At eleven 
miles, having rode over sandridges covered with porcupine, and 
mulga flats with patches of grass, we arrived at the Bluff, which 
I named Jenkins Bluff, after the Hon. J. G. Jenkins, Commis- 
sioner of Public Works. It proved to be of greater elevation 
than any hill we have yet ascended. Our view to the southward 
from its crown was intercepted by high mulga scrub, with which 
these ranges are densely overgrown. Towards the west we 
observed, the table ranges continued as far as the eye could reach. 
A very high table top hill, looming considerably above the sur- 
rounding table ranges, and apparently the only remaining record 
of an earlier and more elevated tableland formation, bears 251° 
10’, and is twelve and a half miles distant. I have named this 
important geological feature Mount Falconer, after His Excellency 
the Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Australia. Another very 
high hill, round in form and probably of granitic formation, bears 
248° and is seventeen and a half miles off. I have designated it 
Mount Hopetoun, in compliment to His Excellency the Karl of 
Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria. Other high but less prominent 
hills are visible westward. A tent-shaped rise, which is twenty- 
nine and a half miles distant, bears 339° 20’. These table ranges 
collectively are a geographical feature of some note. ‘They range 
over country some fifty miles in extent in an easterly and westerly 
direction, attaining an elevation of over 600ft. above the surround- 
ing plains, and 1,500ft. above sea level, and they indicate the termi- 
nation of the cretaceous formation towards this point. I have 
named them the Newland Ranges, after Simpson Newland, Esq., 
President of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South 
Australian Branch. ‘Towards the north-west the timber of a large 
ereek is visible, a creek which I judge to be a tributary of the 
Lilla river. The Goyder river, owing to its trending so much to 
the southward, is rendered impracticable for our purposes. This 
fact, combined with the limited time at my disposal, induced me 
