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Logan ascended to the top of Mount Lindesay, and thence perceived to the 
South-west some open country—evidently patches of the Darling Downs up Killarney 
way, at the head of the Condamine. 
The wild and rugged country upon which these lofty peaks look down, mutely chal- 
lenging ull beholders to storm their formidable ramparts, has attracted, at long 
Intervals, adventurers with spirit and disposition for the enterprise. Some years ago, 
Mr. Borchgrevinck, more recently associated with antarctic exploration, paveeeeeall 
‘scaled, in company with a Mr. Brown, the’ Mount Lindesay of the maps (actually 
Mount Hooker). But Mr. T. de M. Murray-Prior, of Maroon, a station in the 
neighbourhood, accompanied by Mr. Pears, now police magistrate in Rockhampton, 
had preceded him. As for the Mount Barney of the maps (the true Mount Lindesay 
“of Oxley and Logan), before Mr. Borchgrevinck’s feat, that had been ascended by a 
party of four, consisting of Mr. R. M. Collins (already mentioned), Mr. G. A. 
ingsley (son of Chas. Kingsley), John Smyth, and J. G. Coliins. These noticed the 
‘Open country to the south-west as seen by Logan, and also that they were on the 
highest mountain in the vicinity. These facts set Mr. R. Collins thinking, and led 
him to the investigations which liave disclosed the confusion of names, locally as well 
as on maps. There seems also to have been an earlier ascent, subsequent to Logan’s, 
-of which no written account has been preserved, or perhaps was ever penned. Local 
tradition, current as far back as 1865, and even then believed to relate to a time long 
antecedent, told of an ascent of the Mount Barney of that time, accomplished by some 
daring climber, who found a perilous way up certain clefts by availing himself of rope- 
like vines which hung and clung to the crevices. The story went on that since 
that feat a bush fire had destroyed the vines and precluded any repetition of the 
exploit. On modern maps the real Mount Hooker is (under the name of Mount 
Lindesay) figured to be 4,040 feet high, and the real Mount Lindesay (under the name 
of Mount Barney) at 4,500 feet. Allan Cunningham’s observations gave for the 
latter a height of 4,700 feet. 
Mr. R. M. Collins has, in a paper read in August, 1897, before the Royal 
Geographical Society of Australasia, very aptly called attention to a fact which may 
well be present to the minds of visitors gazing from Mount Coot-tha on those distant 
peaks. That is, that they are not mere inconsiderable mounts, but generally higher 
than the loftiest mountains in the British Isles. Thus, Ben Nevis is only 4,406 feet 
above sea-level, nearly 100 feet less than Mount Lindsay. Snowdon is but 3,570 feet, 
and the highest mountain in Ireland—a point of the Macgillicuddy Reeks—only 3,414 
feet. Now, the whole chain of the Macpherson Range between Mount Hooker and 
the Pacific, as it stretches before the vision of an observer on Mount Coot-tha (the 
last fourteen or fifteen miles towards the sea are not in sight, the view being intercepted 
by. feerouane Mount) has a general elevation varying from 2,500 to 3,500 feet above 
sea-level. 
Past the foot of Mount Hooker a track leads over alow point in the range into 
ew South Wales, emerging near the extreme head of the Richmond River, the first 
Station come upon being Unumgar. It was in the wilder country towards Mount 
indesay that, twelve years later than Logan’s exploration, Surveyor Stapleton and an 
fee named Tuck were killed by the blacks, and a third man, Dunlop, left for 
ead. 
| Standing on the summit of Mount Coot-tha, looking forth over the undulations of 
the forest-clad country away to the Main Range, the visitor at the commencement of 
€ twentieth century can easily revive the impressions which may have moved his 
predecessors no further back than two generations. That tract, now parcelled out 
among graziers and farmers, was then a land of mysteries and dangers. Where 
Tailways advance towards its centre in 1901, no man could venture even in 1840, 
xcept at peril of his life. Could the romances connected with the working out of the 
change be but collected, they would furnish thrilling reading. 
_ But it is necessary to push on. “‘ Flinders’ Peak ”’ is the next eminence to which 
4 line of bearing points the direction. This remarkable hill, the highest of several 
Conical peaks of a secondary range between the spectator and the Main Range, was 
tst perceived by Lieutenant Flinaers (H.M.S. ‘‘Reliance”) during his visit to 
oreton Bay in the year 1799. He showed it in his chart, marked “ High Peak.” 
Opies of that chart were in the hands of every subsequent oficial explorer. Oxley 
evidently was familiar with it. From “Termination Hill,” or from Bellevue Hill 
already mentioned, he saw the mount, and identilied it as the “High Peak of Flinders.” 
“nce by easy process the present name, ‘“ Flinders’ Peak.’ In Adelaide, South 
Australia, there is a monument to Flinders’ memory, and in Melbourne a street, but 
IS striking peak must be the grandest and: most enduring’ memorial of this, the 
