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260 feet in width, tlie depth of the channel varying from 14 to 

 30 feet. It is subject, when low, to tidal influences, salt water 

 creeping up as far as the Bairnsdale waterworks, or a distance 

 of from 15 to 16 miles from its mouth. The banks from 

 Bairnsdale down slope on the eastern side towards Jones' Bay, 

 one of the Gippsland Lakes, and on the western side towards 

 McLeod's morass. About a mile below the morass, the current 

 sweeps against Eagle Point, the ridge terminating the water- 

 shed ; from this point it flows through a tongue of land 

 for nearly five miles, the exact distance between a trig, station 

 on Eagle Point, and another at the present terminus of the land 

 being 7366 yards. This strip of land varies in width on either 

 side from 200 to 2000 feet, the average being less than 1000 

 feet ; on one side it slopes to Jones' Bay, and on the other 

 to Eagle Point Bay. After passing the present landmarks 

 forming its mouth, the river flows in a well defined channel 

 in Lake King for 2100 feet, with an average width of 160 

 feet, and of depth 10 to 12 feet at low water, the banks 

 being about 2 feet below the surface, except after a heavy flood, 

 when they appear above it. The submerged bank extends for 

 about 1600 feet at right angles to the flow of the river, and at 

 this distance is only from 3 to 4 feet below the surface, deepen- 

 ing in a few yards to 8 or 10 feet, and then gradually to 22 feet, 

 which is the uniform depth of Lake King over some miles. 

 The tongue of land caused by the deposit in Lake King has had 

 the efiect of partly closing Jones' Bay, from which the only exit 

 for the waters is a narrow channel leading into the submerged 

 extension of the Mitchell. 



The secondary banks separating the flats from the sloping 

 tableland above may be traced from the devonian rocks at 

 Boggy Creek to their termination at Bairnsdale, and again 

 at the isolated bluff" at Eagle Point. From Moitun Creek to 

 about a mile below Lindenow township, these banks consist 

 of flne siliceous sedimentary material near their base, and 

 coarse above, with ironstone bands of varying thickness, and more 

 or less fossiliferous. (See sections of Morrison's Bluft' and Perry's 

 Bluff", Figs. 8 and 10). Fossiliferous ironstone also crops out in an 

 indentation between Perry's Bluff" and Coongulmerang. Thicker 

 bands of clayey ironstone occur in cuttings near Lindenow, and 



