10 THE HEIGHT OF BEN LOITOND, 



R.S. TAS. 



Barn Bluff may prove to be liigher than Cradle Mountain, 

 hut no one, so far as we know, has suggested that it is 

 likely to be as much as 90 feet higher, and there is little 

 probability that Legge Peak will be displaced from its 

 position at the head of Tasmanian summits. 



The results of the calculations for X (the west-ern 

 summit) and .S' (the eastern summit) of l^.lL"■.p'l Moun- 

 tJiin ui-e also given below. The height of the northern sum- 

 mit is about 4440 feet, and of the southern about 4490 

 feet. The mountain has thus a respectable place in the list 

 of Tasmanian summits, although perhaps not quite as high 

 a one as its prominent appearance from Launceston and 

 elsewhere would suggest. (•'^) 



The map published with this paper is based on a rough 

 survey made by Colonel Legge. We are indebted to Mr. 

 A. F. Weber for preparing it for reproduction. The 

 aneroid heights shown on the map depend for the most 

 part on single unchecked observations. The topographical 

 features of the map are shown on the county chart of Corn- 

 wall (No. 3), issued by the Department of Lands and 

 Surveys, which has also been drawn from Colonel Legge's 

 survey. Most of the names given on our rnap are not, 

 however, shown on the official chart. (^) 



(^) Ragged Mountain can be seen on a clem* day from Mt. Welling-ton. 

 Legge Peak is also in view, between Rai?ge<l Mountain and tbe soutliern 

 summit, but it is not conspicuous enough to he distinguished as a spparate 

 summit in the general high area at the nortli of Ben Loinond. 



(^) Colonel Legge has sent us tlie following explanation of names on the 

 Ben Lomond plateau given by him in the rough suivey ho made in the 

 years 1906-9 : — 



" As 1 regarded the Ben Lomond plateau as the most reniarkable idiysio- 

 graphical feature in the State, it seenied fitting that the majority of the 

 names should have some historical significance : accordingly — 



1. The lake-source of the Nile, its gorge, the 'cirque' in the escarp- 

 ment, and the isolated fell adjoining the rivers descent through 

 the latter, were named after explrrers connected with digcoveriei 

 at the sources of the parent river in Africa. 



•2. Dominant and commanding features of the great escarjjinent. as 

 als4> important surface characterisiics ol the plateau : alter 

 governors, officials, surveyors, \-c. of the State. 



3. Other features on the plateau : alter fellow-explorers and asjistanta 



in the purvey. 



4. The remarkable eroded-down valley, dissect! g the plateau, at th*- 



upper entrance of the Speke Gorge : after our good Queen. 

 6. The lofty clift' buttress as seen from the Break-o'-Day Valley, often 

 standing up alone against the cloud in the ' amphitheatre,' after 

 the lonely and mysterious ' Sentinel of Egypt ' — the * Sphinx.' " 



