BY REV. J. MILNE CURRAN. 809 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 Plate xxxvii. 



Fig. L — Lake Albina (Mt. Kosciusko in tlie distance to the left). This 

 picture is taken from a ridge North from Mt. Kosciusko, and 

 the peninsula jutting into the lake is that distinctly marked 

 on Mr. R. Helms' map as preserving "glacial traces." All 

 the country shown here is above the tree-line. The gully, 

 seen in the distance, forming a feeder to the lake, marks the 

 exact line of junction between slate and granite country. 

 The hills to the right are slate ; Mt. Kosciusko itself and the 

 country to the left of the gully are granite varying from 

 typical to gneissose granite. 



Fig. 2. — This photograph is taken approximately from the western shoulder 

 of Mt. Kosciusko, and from approximately the same point as 

 that from which Dr. Lendenfeld naade his sketch shown in 

 Vol. X., Plate 8, of the Proceedings of this Society. Mueller's 

 Peak (Mt. Townsend) is seen in the distance to the right. 

 Looking in the same direction from which this photograph 

 was taken no ridges are visible above the horizon shown. 

 This may be said even of a view taken from the verj' summit 

 of Mt. Kosciusko. The country shown is all above the tree- 

 line. 



Plate xxxviii. 



Fig. L — The Garrard Tarn. There is no tarn or lake in Kosciusko that 

 affords direct evidence of ice-action. The tarn shown is, in 

 the author's opinion, a dammed up elbow of an ancient stream; 

 but immediately in the background a cirque or corrie may be 

 seen in course of formation which will in time form an inde- 

 pendent tarn or add to the area of the tarn figured. 



Fig. 2. — A little to the N.E. of Lake Mere wether, granite may be seen 

 breaking up into the angular blocks shown. The sheeted 

 structure of much of the granite on the plateau lends itself 

 to the production of vast masses of detrital matter in which 

 the granite boulders show parallel and plane faces. When 

 this sheeted granite is traversed by joints, weathering gives 

 rise to large quantities of angular blocks. 



Plate XXXI K. 



The Kosciusko Plateau showing the author's route and all the 

 known lakes and tarns. 



