the river after 10 miles of very rough country. The Camp for the night was on the left bank.
The slate country having become too rough for the horses, Hann and Tate set out on foot next day (30th July), and after 7 miles of the roughest walking that they had ever done (mainly east), reached a hill from which they took their last view up the valley of the Mitchell, as they supposed, but really of its tributary the Hodgkinson. A conspicuous mountain, estimated to be about twenty miles to the S.E., was named Mount Lilley. The distance and bearings given place this mountain on the divide between the Mitchell and Hodgkinson, north of the mouth of the "Eastern Hodgkinson."
After walking back to the camp, Hann and Tate took the horses on to the camp of 28th July. Next day (31st July) the whole party rode back to camp 16, where they found everything safe.
