12 NOTES ON .MT. ANNE AND THE WELD KIVER VAIJ.ET. 



trip in cutting through the heavy scrub, carrying heavy 

 loads. This route would be quite impossible in a wet 

 season. 



In December, 1922, the same party, with the exception 

 of Messrs. Butler, Cooper, and Hackett, and with the addi- 

 tion of Dr. L. McAulay, made a further attempt, this time 

 by the Tyenna-Port Davey track. The weather was almost 

 continuously bad, and only one fine day was experienced. 

 The pack horses could not be taken more than a mile beyond 

 Mt. Bowes, and the party had the greatest difficulty in cross- 

 ing the many flooded feeders of the Huon. The main camp 

 was made under the second we.sterly spur of Mt. Anne. 

 Several attempts were made to get round or across the third 

 (south-westerly) spur in order to reach Lake Judd, but heavy 

 scrub intervened, and it appears that the easiest access to 

 the lake would be by a long circuit by Lake Edgar and the 

 northern end of the River Anne gorge. On the one fine 

 day Mt. Anne was ascended by the second westerly spur 

 and the plateau examined. Messrs. Hutchison and Chambers 

 attempted to ascend the pinnacle, but were stopped by a 

 virtual face about 30 feet below the summit, which had 

 blocked an attempt by the 1920 party. 



(d) Previous Literature and Acknowledgments. 



No detailed account of the district can be found. In 

 1874 the late Mr. R. M. Johnston, when exploring the Arthur 

 ranges, does not appear to have crossed to the east of the 

 Huon. In 1880 Mr. Henry Judd, of the Huon, after .several 

 attempts in earlier years, succeeded in penetrating the 

 scrubs of the Weld Valley and reaching the plateau of Mt. 

 Anne. He discovered and named Lake Judd, and has left 

 a brief but vivid account of the remarkable features of the 

 lake and the great north-eastern gorge in a little-known 

 pamphlet dealing for the most part with quite other matters 

 (Judd, 1898). In 1908 the late Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees and 

 the late Mr. A. S. Atkins were engaged in a geological 

 exploration of the country between Tyenna and the Gordon, 

 but their investigation only extended to the north of the area 

 described in these notes. Mr. Atkins ascended Mt. Anne, 

 and there is a brief reference to it in Mr. Twelvetrees' 

 report (Twelvetrees, 1908). In 1920 Mr. A. Mclnto.sh Reid 

 covered the area described by Mr. Twelvetrees, during the 

 investigations for his Bulletin "Osmiridium in Tasmania," 

 anri added more information, with a very complete geological 

 map (Reid, 192)). Mr. Renison Bell and other prospectors 



