in question though found level. May have travelled some way.

Camp at Woody Mt. Astron. Stn.

Noon B.

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Camp at Woody Mt. Astron. Stn.

8.30 PM

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June 28. Start on a trip Eastward to visit some much broken country 10 to 15 miles from here. Leave camp at 8 A.M. with McDonald & Red River cart. Nilson & Buckboard. Also Ward & Watson, photographers & their team & teamster.

Followed the trail by which the astronomical parties came W. along the line. Road follows the valley of stream on which Capt. FH's [Featherston-Haugh's?] Astron. station now fixed, & cross two tributaries from the North. Road very bad being hard & very bumpy, also hilly in places & crossing streams steep. Red R. cart wheel which had been patched up yesterday showed signs of giving way altogether & required frequent stoppages for wedging & tying up with rope. Came about ten miles to where the road crosses the main creek & though had intended to go a mile or two further stopped here on account of state of cart. Arrived about 12.30. Had lunch & fed horses & started off about 2 P.M. with buckboard & photographers waggon. Drove on about 3 m. & set photographers to work. Went about a mile further on buckboard examined sections &c. Returned to camp about 6.30.

on way .... [?] out about 9 P.M. saw two antelope & had a shot at about 300 yds without effect. Photogs. followed over hill & after long chase managed to shoot one. An old buck. Had several shots on arriving at camping place at another pair but without apparent result.

Geology. The country rises into a sort of plateau which is much broken especially along the edges. A mass of steep clayey hills, some supporting no vegetation but seamed in all direction by runners from rain. The clays & sandy clays of greyish yellow & purple shades chiefly. On some horizons comparatively hard sandstones give features & form capping to hills. The beds often so thick & uniform as to show little trace of stratification. Much ironstone in thin layers.

Saw no lignite but many red topped hills. The colour caused by clays baked by combustion of lignite to colour & consistency of brick. The tops of these hills all on about a level & show evidently that the whole produced by the combustion of one large seam. Must have taken place ages ago as wide valleys now passing & even have been scooped out