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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Alsophila australis, matted together with Clematis, Clematis 

 aristata and Wire-grass, Ehrharta jnticeo', affording a strong 

 contrast to the burnt hillsides. 



As we progressed down the canyon, the track wound through 

 side cuttings made in the slates, with here and there strips of 

 Swamp Tea-tree, where corduroy of tree-ferns, saplings, and tea- 

 tree had been made. The cliffs gradually became less steep, 

 while the rocks merged imperceptibly into normal slates and 

 sandstones, with numerous quartz veins, until, some 7 miles down 

 stream, the gorge opened into a fairly wide flat, where Barlow's 

 Creek joins the Indi. The strata are probably Ordovician. 

 They have a general N. to N.W. strike, and dip to the E., 

 S.W., and W., showing, as far as noticed, a syncline and an 

 anticline, though probably more occur. The natural section is a 

 grand one for the geologist, and the canyon most pleasing to the 

 photographer, but our time did not admit of examination or 

 photography, so we hurried on. For a more detailed description 

 of the area between Groggin and Corryong, see a former paper* 

 by me. 



Leaving the Indi River, we jtassed over the alluvium of Barlow's 

 Creek valley and came on low spurs of intrusive granite, like that 

 at Hermit Creek, forming the divide between Barlow's and 

 Bunroy Creeks. This gave place in about 2 miles to slates and 

 sandstones, considerably indurated near the granite contact. The 

 track from here continued north for several miles, crossing 

 Bunroy Creek and M'llree's Gap, then turned west across the 

 Elliott Range. The strata about M'llree's Gap are probably 

 Ordovician, but granite occurs on the eastern flanks of the range. 

 It gives place to nietamorphic rocks, principally schists, on the 

 western slope into the Thowgla Creek valley. It was long after 

 dusk before we crossed the Elliott Range and reached the valley, 

 where we had some difficulty in finding the way to Corryong.f 

 Finally, near midnight, we reached that township, had tea, packed 

 up ready for the morrow, and retired to rest. 



3rd April. — Early in the morning the coach to Tallangatta (50 

 miles) took Messrs. Thorn and Walker, with the camp material, 

 while I rode one of the horses and drove the other three to the camp 

 of their owners, between Cambourne and Koetong, and, leaving 

 them there, reached Tallangatta about 6 p.m. 



So ended a useful trip of three weeks, comprising some 300 miles 

 of mountain travel, of which 250 miles had been done on foot, 

 with good weather during most of the time. 



* " Geological Notes on the Lower Indi River District, Eastern Benambra," 

 with map, Prog. Rept. Geol. Surv. Vict., vol. ix., 1898, pp. 67-70. 



+ For further notes on this district, see " Report on the Corryong Gold- 

 field," R. A. F. Murray, Prog. Rept. Geol. Surv. Vict., No. viii. , p. 47, and 

 " Report and Plan of Geological Survey of the Parish of Towong," W. H. 

 Ferguson, Monthly Prog. Rept. Geol. Surv. Vict., Nos. 6 and 7, Sept. and 

 Oct., 1899, pp. 6-8. 



