250 E. 0. Thlele: 



exist, only indifferent pack-tracks are available, and sometimes 

 not even these. 



The Macallister route is the only one familiar to the writer, 

 for, as it provides the readiest means of approaching Mt. Wel- 

 lington, it has always been adopted. Heyfield is the nearest 

 railway town, and thence the road is followed to Glenmaggie, 

 about eight miles distant. These two places afford opportunities 

 for obtaining provisions, and a supply sutHcient to last till the 

 return must be taken, for the district is almost unsettled. 



Mt. Wellington can be reached with pack horses in about 

 three days from Heyfield, and the Serpentine area in about two 

 from the same place. The Macallister is followed as far as its 

 junction with a tributary, the Wellington rivep, then the latter 

 valley as far as the western foot of Mt. Wellington. At the 

 Barrier Creek junction a blazed cattle track follows a long spur 

 which leads up to the Wellington snow-plain. 



III. — Previous Liter atiire. 



The geological literature dealing with this district is ex- 

 tremelj' scanty. More than thirty years ago Mr. R. A. F. 

 Murray made a flying survey of this portion of Gippsland, and 

 issued a report''^ which embodies most of our knowledge of the 

 geology of the region. A sketch geological map was also pre- 

 pared, embracing the country as far north as a line ininning 

 east and west through Mt. Ta.mboritha. The whole of the 

 AVellington valley, therefore, conies in in the northern portion 

 of the sheet. Though some portions of the map require revision, 

 it is nevertheless a most useful guide to travellers in this 

 district. Lake Karng, at the foot of Mt. Wellington, was then 

 unknown, and the district to the west of Mt. Wellington was not 

 closely examined by Murray, hence he missed discovering a con- 

 siderable inlier of upperordovician rocks, which are consequently 

 not shown in his majD. He, however, observed that this region 

 would probably afford geological features of interest, for he had 

 been informed of the occurrence of serpentine and chrome-iron 

 ore in that locality. 



The next geologist to make observations on the district was 

 the late Dr. A. W. Howitt, who many years after Murray's ex- 



1 R. A. F. Murray. Geoloj,ncal Sketch Map, No. 2, S.E. Gippsland ; and report in Prog. 

 Rep. Geol. Suiv. Vic, No. V., p. 44. 



1!. .\. !••. Murray, (icdlo-y unci riiysiciil (;c()j;nipliy of \'ict,oria, 189;i. * 



