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McKenzie, a western tributary rising in the McCulloch 

 Ranges. 



In the upper tributaries of the Broadribb, alluvial gold has 

 also been found towards the Coast Range. At both the 

 McKenzie, Combinebar, and Upper Broadribb a legitimate 

 field exists for quartz prospecting, the geological conditions 

 being favouraljle in each place for such discoveries. It is on 

 the north side of the Coast Range that payable alluvial and 

 quartz gold is found. 



The Queensborough, Back Creek, Little River, Bendoc, 

 Delegate, and Bonang Rivers have all been worked success- 

 fully for alluvial gold, and at present reefs are being worked 

 in the Bendoc and Bonang valleys. In the former, the 

 Eclipse, Morning Star, and Come Love mines ; and in the 

 latter, the Rising Sun, Duke of Westminster, Croesus, New 

 Chum, Exhibition, and Young Australian. Most of these 

 mines are in slate and sandstone formation, in some cases, 

 as in the Rising Sun, heavily charged with pyrites and the 

 joints coated with graphitic substance, rendering the ore 

 refractory. Chlorination works, accoiding to the Newbery- 

 Vautin process, are being erected in the district. On 

 the Snowy River are some cupreous lodes, which have 

 not yet been mined. The original observations of that 

 eminent geological observer, the Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A., 

 on the Bendoc auriferous areas, and his remarks as to future 

 discoveries, have been amply borne out by recent mining- 

 developments. As one of the pioneers of geological research 

 in Australia, his work stands, in the light of recent examina- 

 tions, a model of patient and painstaking observation and 

 sound geological reasoning. It must be borne in mind that 

 Mr. Clarke did not follow the pick of the miner in these 

 areas, but was in advance of such. I am confident the 

 members of the Royal Society will pardon this digression 

 from the subject matter of my paper, in the humble endeavour 

 to do justice to the memory of one of Australia's scientific 

 pioneers. 



In a future paper, on the eastern portion of the county, I 

 will endeavour to summarise the observations I have made on 

 the physiography of the area, dealing at greater length with 

 the meteorology, and also the mineralogy. The present 

 article may serve as an introduction to the piiysiography of 

 a little-known region of Victoria. 



