Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia . n those of the Palmer River already referredto, and still more strikingly shown in the ease of the great winding gorge throughwhich the Finke Hows in its passage across the James Range tluy may Ije manymiles in length. They alrerd the only means of traversing the ranges which run continuouslyfrom east to west as the rocks are far too steep and jagged for the passage ofhorses and camels. Sometimes after a heavy rainfall the water will scour outthe bed of the gorge and transfoini it from a dry track into an impassablewat
Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia . n those of the Palmer River already referredto, and still more strikingly shown in the ease of the great winding gorge throughwhich the Finke Hows in its passage across the James Range tluy may Ije manymiles in length. They alrerd the only means of traversing the ranges which run continuouslyfrom east to west as the rocks are far too steep and jagged for the passage ofhorses and camels. Sometimes after a heavy rainfall the water will scour outthe bed of the gorge and transfoini it from a dry track into an impassablewater-hole. It is upon the shady sides of these gorges that many of the most characteristicLarapintine plants, that is those of the Higher Steppes have found shelter, andit is in them also that the water-holes are really permanent and here also unistlive the fish which in times of flood are carried away to the south to stock thewater-holes along the rivers which lise in the McDonnell Range and flow southacross the Lower Steppes. Horn Exfied. Cent. Aiist. Ndrraiivc. Plate Q-. Red Bank Gorge. IlOliX EXPEDITION NAUUATIVE. 10) Tlio tow rocky pools lying in tlic uiorc open part of tln^ gorge, tiiougli iiuiu ofthem were more than a very few yards s(iuar(^ were well stocked with lish, and outof the eiglit species met with during the Ex[jedition six were caught in one smallpool at the entrance to the lledbank Gorge. Tiiese weie (1) the bony Ijream{Chatocssus liorin) the largest iish of the district, though tlie specimens here weresmall when compared with those cauglit in the Ijig water-li(j]e at llenhuiy, (J)a large species of Therapou {T. truttaccus) silver-grey in colour with goldenspots, tlie specimens of wliicii were the largest of this species caught during theExpedition, (3) a smaller species of the same genus (7! pcrcoiihs) easily distin-guished from the former by its Ijriglit silver colour and l)y the presence of livestrongly marked dark bands running vertically on each side of th
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