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By Mr. F. M. Reader. — Dried specimens of grasses, naturalized 

 and new for Victoria — Agrostis alba and Bromus japonicus. 

 After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



TRAMPS THROUGH BENAMBRA, VICTORIA, TO 



MOUNT KOSCIUSKO, NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Part I. — Via Corryong. 



By a. E. Kitson, F.G.S. 



{Read heforv, the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, \Mh March, 1905.) 



The following notes are made from personal observations during 

 two journeys to Mount Kosciusko in 1895 and 1896. The routes 

 taken are shown on the accompanying sketch map. 



The starting point of each trip was Tallangatta (622 feet above 

 sea level), a railway terminus 2123^ miles north-east of Melbourne, 

 and reached by a branch line, 25)^ miles long, connecting with 

 the North-Eastern line at Wodonga. 



The first trip was vid Corryong to the Murray River near 

 Towong, thence through New South Wales, returning the same 

 way. 



At 5 a.m. on 28th March, 1895, Mr. G. J. Bain and I left 

 Tallangatta by coach for Corryong, 50 miles to the east. After 

 running along the Tallangatta Creek Valley to Dry Forest Creek, 

 we climbed up the range separating the former from Koetong 

 (Cooyatong) Creek. Looking S.E. from the summit of this range 

 (2,500 (?) feet high) a glorious view can be obtained on a fine day 

 of Mt. Kosciusko, lying on the horizon to the S.E. ; of Mounts 

 Burrowa and Keelangie, a few miles away to the E.N.E., and to 

 the S., where, in the dim blue distance, stands Mt. Benambra 

 (4,840 feet). A steep run brought us to breakfest at Koetong, 

 18 miles from Tallangatta. The range passed over is chiefly 

 composed of granitoid rocks. Tin and gold mining have been 

 carried on in Koetong Creek. From Koetong we climbed up to 

 Cambourne, and entered a thickly timbered plateau, then wound 

 down through a picturesque cutting into the Berringama valley, 

 getting a delightful view of Ben Lomond and Keelangie. The 

 rocks in this area are granites and porphyries, intersected by 

 dykes of tourmaline-pegmatites. From Berringama to Wabba, 17 

 miles from Koetong, where we had dinner, we followed Cudgewa 

 Creek for most of the way over alluvial deposits, schists, and 

 granite. From Wabba to Corryong the road traverses chiefly the 

 younger Cainozoic deposits of Corryong Creek, which overlie 

 schists and granitoid rocks. The latter outcrop in Corryong, which 

 place we reached at 4.20 p.m. 



29th March. — Here we managed to secure a pack-horse, were 

 initiated into the mysteries of "packing," and left Corryong 



