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Charles Fenner 



Fig. 1. — Map of the Mansfield district, with approximate 

 indicate main roads. 



felief ; the dotted lines 



follow similar, though sliorter, courses. The Dclntite River rises in 

 the elevated knot of granite and silurian countiv about Mount 

 Buller, flows westerly, closely approaches tlie (Toull)urn at a low 

 wind gap (Brack's Gap), then turns north. utkI then westerly, to 

 the Brankeet Creek, where the Delatite takes a sliarp turn south-, 

 ward, flowing into the Goulburn at the Sugarldaf. The Howqua 

 is somewhat parallel with the Delatite, but lises further east, near 

 Mt. Howitt. It flows west, junctioning witli the (Toulburn before 

 the latter has taken the westerly turn. S(Mitli of ttie latitude of the 

 of the Howqua, the following streams aie distinctly northward 

 flowing: — Goulburn, Big, Jerusalem, Rubicon, .\cheron. Yea, and 

 King Parrot Creek. 



(2) — Detailed Accounf. 

 ((t) Blue Ranc/c Cnelc. — This jirt'tty stream tluws through interest- 

 ing wooded country in the western ]iait of the Tuhiiie Highlands. 

 The valley is V-shaped, and has a fairly stee]) grade. The cour.se 



