Poole rests by the creek where the gorge opens quite abruptly on to a vast cretaceous plain.

Photo by the Reverend J.M.

Curran.] The party now left the Barrier Range, and followed a course to another range further north, staying for some time at a small lagoon while engaged in making an examination of the country ahead.

On the 27th of January, 1845, they camped on a creek rising in a small range, and affording, at its head, a fine supply of permanent water.

When upon its banks the explorers pitched their tents, they little thought that it would be the 17th of the following July before they would strike camp again.