1949 Dec. 30. 15 minutes north of there the land is snow-battered spoiled. 6.30, A broad grassy valley & every stream flowing west. Much sheet erosion. 6.33, Blunder. All steep country. Some wooded hills 10 miles west. 6.47 - 7.15 Good, worthwhile collecting country :- 6.47 Deepwater, 3183 feet. 7.02 Unspoiled hills east. 7.04 Masses of large boulders west, forested. Good Kelly County. Railroad very winding. 7.10 All good ridgy country. 7.12 A green steep-pasture valley 7.13 wooded hills and studded stream east 7.15 Unspoiled scarp east of track, 7.18 Bolivia. Lerpup willows much planted in bottom lands, 7.32 Sandy Flat-farming, wooded hills 10 mi E 7.42 Rocky hills west. 7.47 Rock cliffs west. 7.52 Rocky hillside west. 7.54 Bentgulla 8.08 Tenterfield. Not good; too much cleaving. 9.10 Wollon Farm (boundary; change to Q.S.S. label) 9.27 Lysa (no food) 11.53 River. Termite hills numerous, Begin Derby Dams, 12 noon Warwick (left there 12.20). 1.15 Clifton. Soil black rich. Fertile wheat country "Stocks" if grain. 1.22 Rigg's Creek, Low wooded hills 3 miles west, Directed peneplain ? 2.02 Camborya. Open, loam-soil farming country. Toowoomba. Soil red before reaching, 7.30 Toorians. To Lennons Hotel, George St. 183211. The last portion: Steeply down the scarp from Toowoomba for 101 miles to Toorians. Ipswich, Cool-mining town. Numerous farmers' cool pits passed. Cool beds 20-30 feet down. Dec 31. Bought a street map with taxi straight to Queensland Museum. Found district George Rocks already there. He took me to Customs house when we saw 20 Bishops,