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where Macpherson’s Range, separating Queensland from New South Wales, runs 
down to the Pacific, and there in the earliest times a sharp lookout was kept to 
intercept runaways from the penal stations at Brisbane and Dunwich, and from the 
boats’ crews of prisoners who were stationed down the Bay. A good many abscouders 
were caught at Point Danger and brought back to Brisbane town to receive the 
inevitable flogging of from 25 to 200 lashrs. 
The course of Maepherson’s Range, which was named, probably by Captain 
Logan, after the Colonel of the 39th Reginent, then in Sydney, can be dimly 
seen, and guided by the line marked on the dial, a mass standing out, known 
as Tambourine Mountain, can be distinguished. Tambourine Mountain, however, 
is, like Mount Warning. not a hump on the main backbone of the Macpherson 
Range. An offshoot of that range, parting from it at right angles, nearly north and 
south for many miles, brings Tambourine Mountain, its northerly knoll, much nearer 
than the Main Range. ‘l'ambourine Mountain is worthy of particular notice, and 
probaly destined, in time to come, to be a place of resort for people from the low- 
ands, who may desire an invigorating change of scene and of air. The summit of the 
range here is not difficult of access, spurs of moderate gradient leading up. When 
the top is reached a plateau of considerable extent is found to exist, formed of rich 
volcanic soil, satel with running brooks and clad with forest and scrub. The 
elevation here is sufficient to give an agreeable coolness to the temperature. Most of 
the land has been parted with to selectors, and until complete railway communication’ 
is provided the place as a health resort is not likely to be spoilt by overcrowding. 
The access to it is capable of much improvement. 
Just a little to the west of Mount Tambourine the lofty head of Mount Warning 
thrusts itself towards the zenith. The eminence was so named by Captain Cook 
because when it came in sight from the ocean it was time for the seaman sailing from 
the south to look out for the dangerous reef which juts out from Point Danger. 
Itis doubtful, however, whether any prominence on the line of mountains here 
forming the horizon is actually the summit of Mount Warning. There is visible just 
a little knob, in the direction of its bearing. But the crest of the Macpherson Range 
in that part of its course is lofty, and probably intercepts the view to Mount Warning. - 
Were Mount Warning visible, the visitor to Mount Coot-tha, who looked upon it, 
would view part of ‘“ New South Wales.’’ This mountain is situated, not on the 
backbone of the dividing range, but at the extremity of a spur which strikes to the 
southwards. ‘The Tweed River has its source around the base of Mount Warning. 
Along this line the eye glances over the middle portions of the valleys of the Logan 
and Albert Rivers. Nearer, and, as it were, at the feet of the gazer, a long, sinuous 
reach of the Brisbane shows its shining surface, like a couple erikies connected by # 
scarcely perceptible channel. This appearance is. of course, due to the ridges shut- 
ting out the view of its course here and there. This is the highest point at which 
the river itself is visible, although its course can be readily traced a long way 
further westerly. 
Carrying the glance still further in a westerly direction, there begins to rise, in 
the middle distance, a nearer range of hills, which culminate in the striking peak, 
Mount Flinders, presently to be particularly referred to. _ Betore reaching that 
eminence, however, there may be seen, with an unassisted eye, beyond a dip in the 
backbone of that range, between two mounds, far beyond them, a remarkably shaped 
mountain top. This appears to rise on both sides in sheer precipice. Somewhat 
further to the west, and about equally far away, two great peaks tower skyward, and 
the dizl points to them by the names of Mounts Lindesay and Barney. The names of 
these three lofty mounts have been the occasion of much confusion, which has only’ 
while this paper was in course of preparation been reduced to order by investigations’ 
undertaken by Mr. R. M. Collins, himself a resident of the Logan district since early 
childhood, and familiar with every feature of the district. The first mountain just 
mentioned is now ascertained to be beyond reasonable doubt Mount Hooker—so 
named by Frazer and Cunningham during an exploratory trip with Logan in 1828, in 
honour of their mutual friend, Sir Wm. Hooker, then Mr. Hooker, Regius Professor 
of Bctany at the Glasgow University. On all modern maps the name of Mount 
Lindesay is set against it. But on an old map of 1829, by Allan Cunningham, it is 
shown with the original name— Mount Hooker—set against it; and Mount Lindesay 
is one—the highest--of the two detached peaks just indicated, and is marked Mount 
Barney on modern maps. Mount Lindesay was first noticed and named after Major 
Lindesay, of the 39th Regiment, by Oxley, in 1824, during his second local exploration 
of the Brisbane River, when he saw it from a high peak, called by him Bellevue’ 
Hill, by Cunningham styled Mount Arucaria in his 1829 map, and now named Goat 
Mountain. This eminence is a part of the D’Aguilar Range, near Mount Crosby. ' 
