Six Days on the Mountains of Cowley

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Item 1(b)

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By John Gale. Described as 'Published in 1875 and reprinted by special request'.

Page prints pp. 21-42 including 22A, 22B. Queanbeyan Observer, 1903: March, 24, 27, 31 April, 3, 7, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 May, 5, 8.

Account of a journey, 13 February to 19 February, 1875, to the Coolamon Plain caves and to a waterfall of great height on a tributary to the Cotter River, chiefly in the company of A. McDonald and William Reid.

Yarralumla station first night (Augustus Gibbes). Urayarra station - sermon by Rev. P. G. Smith. Including Sarah McDonald to John Blundell's homestead (Condore) towards Mt. Coree - Brindabella station (George Franklin) and Goodradigbee River. Deserted gold prospecting works up the Goodradibgee River (seen by Rev. W. B. Clarke) - Coolamon Creek - Wombat Ground - Peppercorn Hill area and source of the Murrumbidgee - Long Plain station (John McDonald) - anecdote of loss of George Palmers stock attempting to winter on Old Coolamon Plain - description of area, vegetation including peppercorn shrub, snakes, bees, wild horses. The Coolamon station (W. F. de Salis) - Coolamon Caves and description - back to Long Plain station, Gale and William Reid with difficulty reach waterfall of great height via Diamond Hill, the Wombat Ground, eastward over the Goodradigbee River and up the Brindabella range - return to Urayarra after discovering bushrangers fort (Collins).

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John Gale

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