22 NOTES OP A TRIP TO MOUNT SEAVIEW, 



given as 6,000 feet. Banks' school map of New South Wales, 

 adopted by the Government of New South Wciles for use in State 

 schools, and dated 1891, gives the height as 6,000 feet. 



"Mt. Seaview I found to be 3,100, and not 6,700 feet as recorded 

 on county map of Macquarie. It is not at all prominent from 

 the north-west or south, the ranges on these sides being as high 

 or higher than it. The range near the Y (Taree and Port Mac- 

 quarie) tree is 700 feet higher, and at the Myrtle Scrub at the 

 junction of Mt. Seaview with Main Range is 1,200 feet higher." 

 [Report of Mr. Surveyor Graeme, 9th May, 1890.] 



In accordance with the above determination, the height is 

 given at 3,100 feet on the map of the County of Hawes, published 

 by the Lands Department in 1894. 



Mr. J. F. Campbell, L.S., of Walcha, who accompanied me to 

 Mt. Seaview, has furnished me with the following statement : — 



" Until recent years the true position of Mt. Sea View was 

 unknown to the Survey Department. Previously to 1889 (the 

 date of its location by survey) the Department of Lands on two 

 occasions at least sent staff officers from the tableland to fix its 

 position, but success did not cuown their efforts. In 1889 a 

 staff surveyor was sent from Port Macquarie on the same errand, 

 and with the assistance and information afforded by local residents, 

 fixed on the present mountain as the Sea View of Oxley" and 

 others. Mt. Sea View is by no means the highest portion of the 

 spur of which it forms the most easterly termination. The Sea 

 View spur (about 15 miles long) descends from the tableland at 

 the Myrtle Scrub (about 4,000 feet above sea level) and undulates 

 in an easterly direction to the Hastings River, terminating in the 

 more indurated altered slate of Mt. Sea View (3,100 feet). The 

 spur is an off-shoot from the main water-shed of the Manning and 

 Hastings Rivers, and sheds the waters of Tobin's and Fenwick's 

 Creeks on their upper reaches, and Tobin's and Maiden's Creek 

 below. Mount Forsyth forms the termination of the spur (on 

 which is situated Mt. Maiden) coming out of the Sea View spur 

 about 8 or 9 miles from the Myrtle Scrub. This spur sheds the 

 waters of Fenwick's and Maiden's Creeks." 



