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Miss S. W. L. Cochrane, from Sandringham. 



Mr. C. Oke, from Beechworth. 



Mr. J. P. M'Lennan (teacher) and Pupils of State School, from Emerald. 



Mr. J. Paul, from Grantville. 



Mr. G. Coghill, from Echuca, Mansfield, Portarlington, Tunstall, and 



Castlemaine. 

 Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, from Benalla and Frankston. 

 Mr. C. Ashley, from Adelaide. 



TRAMPS THROUGH BENAMBRA, VICTORIA, TO 

 MOUNT KOSCIUSKO, NEW SOUTH WALES. 

 Part II. — Via Dart and Gibbo Rivers. 

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

 [Read before the Field Naturalists' Chih of Victoria, IWi March, 1905.) 

 On the second journey * a party of three, Messrs. W. Thorn, jun., 

 J. Walker, and I, left Tallangatta at lo a.m. on Saturday, 14th 

 March 1896, for Cravenville, 27 miles to the S.E. We started 

 with two pack and two saddle horses, but before many miles had 

 been done one of the saddle horses had to be impressed into pack 

 service. The first 4}4 niiles were along the Corryong road over river 

 terraces and alluvium and the ends of low spurs of metamorphic 

 rocks. At the State school these rocks are silky, pitted and 

 nodular mica-schists of various shades of grey, brown, yellow 

 and red, with a N.W. strike and S.W. dip of from 75° to 80°. 

 A short distance past here the valley of Tallangatta Creek takes 

 a sharp bend to the S.E., while the road crosses it near the 

 junction of Dry Forest Creek. Here a dyke of granitoid rock 

 can be seen in schist. About half a mile from the crossing the 

 Cravenville road leaves the Corryong road and runs down the 

 valley of Tallangatta Creek, About ij4 miles from this junction 

 a massive quartz reef, 3 to 15 feet wide, outcrops from mica- 

 schists, similar to those at the State school. The reef strikes 

 N. 47° W. with the containing schists. The quartz is opaque 

 white and laminated with reddish-brown mica. Continuing along 

 the creek flat for about a mile we passed over a tongue of granite, 

 and here recrossed the creek. This granite is, in part, of white 

 to grey colours, with muscovite, while in others it is a reddish 

 variety, with biotite ; some ot it shows foliation. We continued 

 over alluvium, 15 to 20 feet deep, for some distance, then over the 

 second terrace till the stream impinged against the western edge of 

 the valley. Here fine mica-schists and slates were visible, with a 

 S.E. strike and S.W. dip of 80° to 85°. About 7 miles from the 

 Corryong road we passed the Wyeeboo State school, and then the 

 creamery, over slates having the same strike and dip ; then for 

 about 3 miles over the terraces of the stream, and crossed Honey- 

 suckle Creek. The camp was made i^ miles further on, near 

 Macklin's crossing at Polmear's. 



* See map published with Part I. in the Victorian Naturalist, October, 1905. 



