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CHAPTER XCV

DICKIE, DICK AND SHEFFIELD IN THE McILWRAITH AND MACROSSAN RANGES, 1910

DICK'S NARRATIVE. GEOGRAPHICAL VALUE OF THE TRIP CONSISTS CHIEFLY IN IDENTIFICATION OF PLACES PREVIOUSLY KNOWN. START FROM MEIN TELEGRAPH STATION. BATAVIA RIVER. Fox's OLD STATION. CAMP OF WILLIAM PARTRIDGE, A PROSPECTOR. UP SEFTON CREEK. JACK'S NOB. MOUNT CARTER. ACROSS DIVIDE OF PENINSULA. REACH LOCKHART RIVER AT GIBLET'S SANDALWOOD LANDING. MACROSSAN RANGE. UP LOCKHART VALLEY. DODD CREEK BREACHES MACROSSAN RANGE. "VALLEY HILLS" OF ADMIRALTY CHART. GOLD ON UPPER LOCKHART. OLD WORKINGS. DODD CREEK. A SANDALWOOD DEPOT. THE GOLDEN GATE REEF. MEN AT WORK. STORY OF DISCOVERY BY DODD AND PRESTON. NISBET REEFS. ABORIGINAL CARRIERS. DOWN LOCKHART VALLEY TO HEMING HEIGHTS. UP THE VALLEY. GRASSY, UNTIMBERED ALLUVIAL PLAINS. NORTH-WESTWARD TO AND ALONG DIVIDE OF PENINSULA. GOLD PROSPECTS. BACK TO "VALLEY HILLS" CAMP. Two BLACKS JOIN PARTY. GOLD IN REEFS. GOLD ON SURPRISE CREEK. APPEL'S PINNACLES. GOLD PROSPECTS. DENSE SCRUB. DISPOSAL OF ABORIGINAL DEAD. DOWN LOCKHART VALLEY. To SUMMIT OF MCILWRAITH RANGE. SANDALWOOD PACKER MET. ASCENT OF MOUNT CARTER. BATAVIA RIVER. BAIRDSVILLE, THE SCENE OF WILLIAM BAIRD'S DISCOVERY OF GOLD AND SUBSEQUENT MURDER. CHOCK-A-BLOCK AND PLUTOVILLE DIGGINGS. BACK TO MEIN. MAYER AND CLAUSSEN'S REEF ON HORSE CREEK. VISITS TO EBAGOOLAH AND VIOLETVILLE. DICKIE'S REPORT. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON JAMES DICK AND LIST OF HIS WRITINGS.

JAMES DICK'S REPORT

THE McIlwraith Range, named, traversed and sketched by me in 1879-80, is still only known to geography through (i) my sketch-map (which appears to have been seriously misinterpreted by the Survey Office) and (2) the wheel-and-compass surveys of MR. J. T. EMBLEY, Licensed Surveyor. (SEE MAP C.) The latter in 1884-5 denned the position and course of Sefton Creek and the head of the Batavia River aud of Geikie Creek, one of the heads of the Archer River. Between the Batavia River and Geikie Creek, approximately on the meridian of 143 16' E. long., a north-and-south line was run from 13 8' to 13 22' S. lat., to connect the river with the creek, and a few miles to the west of this line, some further lines were drawn in connection with the survey of "Bald Hill" and "Bald Hill, No. I" pastoral holdings.

My original sketch-map was not published with the official

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