McKinlay, whose health suffered from the effect of the hardships incident to his journeys, retired to spend his days in the congenial atmosphere of pastoral pursuits, and died, in 1874, at Gawler, South Australia, where a monument is erected to his memory.
15.2.WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH.
William Landsborough, the son of a Scotch physician, was born in Ayrshire and educated at Irvine.

When he came to Australia, he settled first in the New England district of New South Wales, and thence removed to Queensland.

In 1856, his interest in discovery and a desire to find new country led him to undertake much private exploration, principally on the coastal parts of Queensland, in the district of Broadsound and the Isaacs River.

In 1858 he explored the Comet to its head, and in the following year the head waters of the Thomson.
An old friend and erstwhile comrade, writing of him, says: "Landsborough's enterprise was entirely founded on self-reliance.

He had neither Government aid nor capitalists at his back when he achieved his first success as an explorer.