Author: Batman, John,
Title: Journal, manuscript
Date: 10 May-11 June 1835.
Accession Number: MS13181
Transcript Number: pp0016-050-0
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which I have named mount
Cottrell, and mount Connelly,
after Mr. Cottrell, of V- D- Land
and also Mr. Connelly of the
same place - another
mound which is about
15 mile distance from these
mounts, and which appears
most beautifull, Plains
under it and nearly to the
top clear of timber bearing
N- west from mount Collicott
this I have named mount
Solomon, after Mr. J. Solomon,
of Launceston - I intend to
proceed to morrow up to through
the Country for several days
and meet the Vessel at the
River, or head of the Bay - if
the wheather will permit -
this day rained nearly the
whole of the time we where
out with an hail storm
and the wind blowing hard from
the west very cold - we
saw the smoke of the Natives under
mount Collicott -

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