BY L. F. GIBLIN, E. L. PIESSE, AND H. R. HUTCHISON. VS 

 1913. 



CALCLLATION OF HEIGHTS. 



LIST OF PAPERS, &c., RELATING TO THE PHYSICAL 

 GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF BEN LOMOND. 



1846. 



P. E. De Strzelecki. Physical Description of New South 

 Wales and Van Diemen's Land. (London : Longmans, Brown, 

 Green and Longmans, 1845. 8vo.) 



Count Strzelecki gives the following in his table of 

 heights (p. 44) : — 



" Mount Ben Lomond, culminant point, 5002, 

 , N.W. point, 4354, 



, South Bluff, 4500." 



There is nothing, however, to show where his '' cul- 

 minant point " was. His " South Bluff " may have been 

 Sphinx Bluff (4580 feet), but it is a name more 

 suitable for the Stacks Bluff (5010). If South Bluff was 

 the Stacks Bluff, Strzelecki's table shows that he 

 observed a higher summit elsewhere on the mountain. 

 Many of his heights in other parts of Tasmania were 

 inaccurate, although he seems to have made the most of 

 his apparatus. The instruments used were Gay Lussac's 

 syphon mountain barometers and Wollaston's boiling 

 point apparatus (p. 40). Count Strzelecki describes the 

 scenery of Ben Lomond. Of the plateau he says (p. 

 67) : ^' The scene is here one of unbroken solitude, 

 silence, and desolation." 



