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 'ihe Jubilee ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 195 same interest as in previous days. Huge stretches of territory remained (and still remain) to be traversed ; but they could not possess anything essentially different from what had already been examined. Pastoralists pushed farther north, and examined new country ; but except for the necessity of opening up stock routes, exploration in future was principally for the geologist, the miner, and students of inland flora and fauna. In 1879, country between Queensland and the Northern Territory was traversed by a party sent out by the proprietors of the Queens/ander, a Brisbane newspaper. Mr. Favenc discovered a large area of pastoral country near the Gulf of Carpentaria ; and Mr. Alexander Forrest, after great privations, journeyed from the north-west of Western Australia to Port Darwin. In 1883 Mr. A. N. Chambers and Mr. E. Coates marked out a route from Denial Bay to the Warburton Ranges, and in December of that year Mr. Charles Winnecke completed an exploration into the interior. In 1883, also, Mr. W. W. Mills went from Beltana, in the North, to Champion Bay, in Western Australia. Mr. Winnecke made further explorations in the interior in 1884. Many private parties gathered information concerning the central territory. --:a«i^r9l^^Stbu>^. Statue of Hercules, Victoria Square Presented to the Corporation of Adelaide by W. A. Horn, Esq., M.P. N2