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situation at the entrance of tlie vale of Aris^ bears some 

 resemblance to the original hill of that name at the opening 

 of the vale of Athol. To the east lay the upper ward, if I 

 may so call it, of the vale, which seems of much greater ex- 

 tent than any of the others ; in its centre is a plain of con- 

 siderable magnitudej (Innes Plain,) through a part of which 

 the Logan meanders, this tract not being less than ten miles 

 across from east to west. From the sudden turn which the 

 river took, we wxre enabled to cut off a considerable angle, 

 by which we were led through a district of the richest sheep 

 country I ever beheld. At ten miles from our last halt, 

 we passed over a small plain covered with Emus^ whence 

 the view of the western cone of the supposed Mount Warn- 



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the sea, was peculiarly imposing. At half-past three we 

 paused for the remainder of the day, our progress being 

 eleven miles and a half — ten miles and a half due soudi. 



Aug. \st. — Morning cold and frosty; thermometer at 3j • 

 At a mile and a half from our encampment we crossed the 

 Logan, having mistaken it for a stream descending from 

 Mount Clanmorris, and holding a south-west course, by wbicn 

 our progress was shortly after arrested. The latter river, 

 the Lyon, sweeps through a most beautiful valley, and seenis 

 to have its source at the foot of the eastern cone (Mount 

 Hooker) of the high Range. We followed it upwards for 

 two miles and a half, till the dense forests of Araucaria for- 

 bade our farther progress. We named this romantic valley 

 Glen Lyon. Having regained, at one o'clock, our former 

 track along the Logan, we proceeded for two miles and a ha'* 

 along its banks, through a fine flat country, above which the 

 high central peak (Mount Lindsay) rose in great majesty, 

 so that the tout ensemble of the whole upper ward of the Vale 

 of Aris may compare with any scenery that I ever saw. 

 Our walk this day was short, but eight miles, and its true 

 southward progress only two miles and a half. 



The banks of the river abound here with wild turkeys* 

 and are thickly overgrown with forests of Cedar, {Cedrda 

 Toona,) and Chestnuts, (Castanospermum,) which, with the 



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