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Helms, in 1901,* as occurring to the north, and they prove, as 

 we suspected from our hasty examination, that Lake May is a 

 glacial lake. 



On returning to the camp we passed between the wrong bluffs 

 on the plateau, but fortunately the evening was fine, and just on 

 the edge of dusk we came on to the Manaro track, about half a 

 mile away from the camp, which we soon reached. The wind 

 was very cold nnd blowing a gale, so that, with the experience of 

 the past two nights, we decided to strike camp and try to reach 

 the Leatherjacket furd that night, since our holidays were fast 

 drawing to a close. After lea, while making a supply of scones, 

 we were surprised to find that some water, taken from a running 

 stream and standing in a basin for a few moments, close in front 

 of the intermittent heat-blasts from a large fire, had been frozen. 

 We packed up, and at 9 o'clock left this cold spot, and were soon 

 over the Manaro Pass and among the warm timber. Now, it is 

 an easy matter following a rapidly ascending ridge, but quite 

 a different one descending a ridge, especially in the dark. 

 About a mile from the ford we took the wrong spur for a 

 hundred yards before discovering our mistake. The moon was 

 now up, and on returning to the main ridge, here almost flat, we 

 searched for the track for a long time without success, till, at 

 3 a.m. on ist April, we decided to camp till daylight. On this 

 trip, as on the same day last year, we had lost our way. The 

 only sounds of animal life heard were the peculiar squawk of a 

 Mountain Opossum and the never-failing " Mopoke." 



ist April. — Daylight showed us the missing blazes, and we 

 packed up, reaching the ford at 10.30 a.m. Here we had 

 breakfast, rested the horses, and dried our things. Leaving here 

 about noon, we made no delay in reaching Groggin, where we 

 arrived about 2.30 p.m. Our provisions were very low by this 

 time, but we were able to get some salt meat from Mr. Riley. 

 This we cooked, and made some scones, so as to lose no time 

 during the forced marches necessary to cover the remaining 

 distance, about 40 miles, to Corryong, along a newly cut track on 

 the Victorian side of the Indi. We left Groggin about 6 p.m., 

 and, after following an ill-defined track for about 2^ miles along 

 the Indi flat over a river terrace, crossed Omeo Creek near its 

 junction with the Indi; then for about i}^ miles over a lower 

 river terrace and marshy ground to where a steep spur joins the 

 river. This place we reached at dusk and found a large unnamed 

 creek, which we called Pinnibar Creek, as it rises on the flanks of 

 Mt. Pinnibar, flowing from the west into the river. In the creek 

 partially metamorphosed slates were visible in a small outcrop, 



* " Geological Notes on Kosciusko, with Special Reference to Evidences of 

 Glacial Action," <»/. cit., xxvi., part i, March, 1901. 



For further information on the geology of this district the papers specified in 

 the appendix to the latter paper should be consuUed. 



