Ph)/siogr(iph)/ of flie Mansfield District. 



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Fig. 13. — The Upper Goiilburn as it would have been had it developed un- 

 interruptedly as a western flowing river. 



Figs. 14 and 15. — (with Section A B). Reconstruction of the rivers as out- 

 lined in the context. 



Fig 16. — The Goulburn as it is to-day. 



In Fig. 15 it is pictured that, in the progressive movement of the 

 fault blocks, the country has " sagged " along a central E. and W. 

 line. This would cause the river to relinquish its northern valley 

 and dam up against the tilted edge of the next l:)lock. Through the 

 least I'esistant part of this range the river would then cut its way 

 {Fig. 15). and thus take up its journey westward. 



Later a northward flowing stream, heading back through the 

 Barjarg Gap, captured the Broken River, and we have the present 

 physiography as outlined in Fig. 16. 



It is suggestive and instructive to know that when the goldfields 

 opened at Wood's Point and Jamieson. on the Goulburn. bullock- 

 drivers with their waggon loads of provisions u.sed to make the 

 journey from Benalla, south through the Barjarg Gap, on to the 

 Delatite. across Brack's Gap, and southward up the valley of the 

 Goulburn. This is approximately the cour.se of the stream as 

 indicated in the foregoing paragraphs. 



