2m T. >S'. Hart: 



From Sniythesdale eertaiiily a lead was worked with a fall 

 northward under the present snuth flowinir Sniythes Creek. 

 The alteration was probably due to the lava streams. From 

 near Staffordshire Reef a. large valley falls to the north to join 

 the Yarrowe© Creek, and its waters iire turned south iioain down 

 that creek. The Yarrowee valley itself west and south of Bunin- 

 yonn', and the old Durham Lead which preceded it, are compara- 

 tively narrow. The l^al La-1 JJasin cannot have drained south 

 at the west end of Mt. Doran. ^^~e find thus a considerable 

 east and west Divide many miles south of the present Divide. 

 (Such, a Divide is mentioned without the evidence being quoted 

 in Professor Grep'ory's Geoi^raphy. It can, however, scarcely 

 turn to the north-ea.-t as shown in the ligure there.) At Sniythes- 

 dale it has long been recognised. 



It, must not be ajssumed that this was a Main Divide from 

 which the streams flowed north to the Murray. North of Mt. 

 Doran we find an outlet to the east. .Vlluvial sands just show 

 below the basalt at the fo.it of the Lai Lai Falls. Half a mile 

 east, just below^ the little falls of the Western Moorabool, the 

 ba*-alt for a short distance comes down to the bed of the river. 

 On a creek a little further east a considerable width of sands 

 is exposed and not bottomed. On the Eastern Moorabool ;it 

 Bungeeltap, they are much wider, and show also in some of the 

 creeks in the parish of Bungal. Thence the volcanic plain is 

 unljroken till we reach the Par wan valley, where the estuarine 

 beds appear and are well exposed as far as the steep descent on 

 the Rowfiley fault. There is little doubt that this is the original 

 outlet from the Lai Lai Basin. (The a.ciual area of the brown 

 coal at Lai Lai nuiy l)e regarded as a local subsidence.) This 

 eastward valley could scarcely have drained any appreciable area 

 west of Mt. Buninyong. It received, no doubt, a part of the 

 drainage of the country buried under the southeani edge of the 

 Eastern Plateau. Further north a part (tf the area north of 

 Warrenheip may have discharged its waters past (Gordon and 

 thence also to the Parwan Estuary. 



To return to the lead at Smythesdidc. The main Trunk Lead 

 has been worked for some distance north, but not far enough to 

 leave its final course without doubt. From the Ballarat Connnon 

 westward, the railway follows down the gentle slope of a lava 



