At about five miles we crossed another creek coming immediately out of the range, where it issued from under a high and precipitous wall of rock, underneath which was a splendid deep and pellucid basin of the purest water, which came rushing into and out of it through fissures in the mountain:  it then formed a small swamp thickly set with reeds, which covered an area of several acres, having plenty of water among them.  I called this Penny’s Creek.  Half a mile beyond it was a similar one and reed bed, but no such splendid rock reservoir.  Farther along the range other channels issued too, with fine rock water-holes.  At eighteen miles we reached a much larger one than we had yet seen:  I hoped this might reach the Finke.  We followed it into the range, where it came down through a glen:  here we found three fine rock-holes with good supplies of water in them.  The glen and rock is all red sandstone:  the place reminded me somewhat of Captain Sturt’s Depot Glen in the Grey ranges of his Central Australian Expedition, only the rock formation is different, though a cliff overhangs both places, and there are other points of resemblance.  I named this Stokes’s Creek.

We rested here an hour and had a swim in one of the rocky basins.  How different to regions westward, where we could not get enough water to drink, let alone to swim in!  The water ran down through the glen as far as the rock-holes, where it sank into the ground.  Thermometer 102 degrees to-day.  We continued along the range, having a fine stretch of open grassy country to travel upon, and in five miles reached another creek, whose reed beds and water filled the whole glen.  This I named Bagot’s Creek.  For some miles no other creek issued, till, approaching the eastern end of the range, we had a piece of broken stony ground and some mulga for a few miles, when we came to a sudden fall into a lower valley, which was again open, grassy, and green.  We could then see that the range ended, but sent out one more creek, which meandered down the valley towards some other hills beyond; this valley was of a clayey soil, and the creek had some clay holes with water in them.  Following it three miles farther, we found that it emptied itself into a much larger stony mountain stream; I named this Trickett’s Creek, after a friend of Mr. Carmichael’s.  The range which had thrown out so many creeks, and contained so much water, and which is over forty miles in length, I named George Gill’s Range, after my brother-in-law.  The country round its foot is by far the best I have seen in this region; and could it be transported to any civilised land, its springs, glens, gorges, ferns, Zamias, and flowers, would charm the eyes and hearts of toil-worn men who are condemned to live and die in crowded towns.