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Explorations in Australia

CHAPTER 5
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Barometer 28.46; thermometer 63 degrees at 5 p.m.; latitude 26 degrees 23 minutes 39 seconds South.

Left a pack-saddle frame and two pack-bags hanging on a tree.
KIMBERLEY RANGE.
20th.
Steering North-East for five miles over fine grassy plains, came to a low stony range, ascending which we saw, a little to the south, a line of (colalya) white gums, to which we proceeded.

Then following up a large brook for about five miles North-East, we camped at a small water-hole in the brook.

In the afternoon I went with Pierre about one mile North-East of camp to the summit of a rough range and watershed, which I believe is the easterly watershed of the Murchison River.

All the creeks to the west of this range (which I named Kimberley Range, after the Right Honourable Lord Kimberley, the Secretary of State for the Colonies) trend towards the Murchison, and finally empty into the main river.


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