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Are(( ilrdinnnj In Jidhicht ra ami h'lstennnck. 



A short (listiincL' sdiitli (if the Malvern tailway station is a 

 swamiiy area t'oniieily known as Paddy's Swamp. The 140 ft. 

 contoiii- I'liiis i-onnd an area aliout 40 chains by 10, leaving an 

 outlet at the west end. which, however. I'annot drain away all 

 the surface water. Thence the valley falls south-west and west to 

 ihe Hat at Jialaclava. reaching the sea to the south of the St. Kilda 

 Hill. South-east from Paddy's Swamp is the flat in the Catilfiehl 

 Racecourse, and again soutli-east, another aiea of ditticult drain- 

 age, to be refeii'ed to later. 



The trend of the hnvest ground of the Klwood Swamp is from 

 south-east to noith-west. Tp stream the valley can be followed 

 almost straight to its head north of Cheltenham. The south-west 

 limit of the f>l.sternwick ("reek Avaters is a ridge from near the 

 power house of the lirigiiton electric tram south-east in an almost 

 straight line. It is close to the Point Xepean-road from North 

 Brighton to Moor;iI)biii station; thence a little east of the road, 

 which has turned a little more southerly. This may conveniently 

 be called the Moorabl)in Ridge. The Elsternwiek Creek lies close 

 north-east of tliis ridge, a small parallel vallfy intervening at 

 North Biighton. The creek then receives practically nothing from 

 the left ])ank. but on the right or north side it receives two im- 

 ])ortant tributaries; one of these runs south from near the Caul- 

 field Town Hall, and turns west to join the creek near Gardenvale 

 station. The other flows south, near the Mordialloc railway, le- 

 I'eiving much water from its east side, including that from the 

 swamp south of Carnegie station. Here the 140 ft. contour almost 

 sHirrounds a long narrow area stretching for a mile and a quarter 

 south-east to north-we.st. The outlet is south-west to the Elsternwiek 

 Creek tributaiy, but at a point a long way back from the north- 

 west end of the elongated hollow. At its south-east end it merges 

 in an ordinary valley from the south-east. 



A remarkable broken valley line lies north-east of tlie Elstern- 

 wiek Creek. One portion of it runs through the entrance to the 

 Brighton Cemetery, and extends south-east for some distance lower. 

 This part and another north-west of it fall into one of the 

 Elsternwiek Creek tributaries. On the same line further south- 

 'east, a pair of similar valleys falls into tlie next tributary, and a 

 fifth section, reaching the Elsternwiek Cicek by another route, 

 occurs further on, east of the Bentleigh station. It is either a 

 valley broken up by three captures, or indicates a marked tendency 

 to produce valleys alf)ng one line. 



