It flowed into the Nicholson, and both Leichhardt and Gregory had crossed below the confluence.

It was a running stream with much semi-tropical foliage on its banks, running through well-grassed, level country, and he named it the Gregory.

As they neared the higher reaches of the Gregory, they found the country of a more arid nature.

They ascended the main range, and on the 21st of December, Landsborough found an inland river flowing south, which he named the Herbert.

The Queensland authorities subsequently re-christened the stream with the singularly inappropriate name of Georgina.