802 GLACIER ACTION ON MOUNT KOSCIUSKO PLATEAU, 



showinir slacier traces. There is some difficulty in determinino; the 

 exact position of these areas, as the map is not quite accurate here 

 in the contour of the hills. I am not prepared to state absolutely 

 that I found the identical place referred to by Mr. Helms, and on 

 that account I cannot be too positive. I cannot believe, however, 

 that I did not actually traverse the ground, the locality not being 

 far from the main track, but nothing at all suggestive of ice 

 action caught my eye. As Mr. Helms does not refer particularly 

 or definitely to these two places, I pushed on and formed a camp 

 at Pretty Point, so as to be centrally situated in the most extensive 

 glaciated areas shown on Mr. Helms' map. Mr. Helms is very 

 definite in his conclusion concerning this locality, and speaks 

 about an open grassy flat at Wilson's Valley. This valley he 

 says " may safely be considered attributable to glacier action."* 

 A few lines further on he '•ays, " entering the flat we stand on 

 Boggy Plain and upon an unmistakable glacier deposit." This I 

 consider the most astonishing statement in Mr. Helms' papei\ 

 The assertion simply bewilders one. I cannot conceive how such 

 a conclusion could have been reached : to my mind this one 

 fact is abundantly, unmistakably clear — Boggy Plain is not a 

 "glacier deposit. ' There is nothing that one can appeal to, nothing 

 that one can point to, indicative of ice action. " Proceeding," 

 says Mr. Helms, " the evidence of ice action is becoming more 

 plentiful at almost every turn." I have to state simply that I 

 saw nothing of the sort. This was not attributable to any want 

 of care or observation on my part. I went to the Kosciusko 

 Plateau believing that evidences of glaciation were abundant, and 

 it was with the utmost reluctance that I was forced to come to 

 the conclusions here recorded. 



The value of Mr. Helms' observations could be tested critically 

 on Boggy Plain. Nowhere is he so definite in his statements as 

 when speaking of Boggy Plain. I decided on this account to 

 examine the plain thoroughly, and nothing could be easier than 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2nd Series), Vol. viii. p. 354. 



