ItY A. N. LKWIS. M.C.. LL.IS. 15 



The country between the Huon and the Weld is rugged 

 in the extreme. To the north is Mt, Anne, a narrow ridge 

 running roughly north and south, perhaps four miles long, 

 with the summit at the extreme northern end standing 

 several hundred feet above the ridge of the mountain and 

 over 4,500 feet above sea level. From the summit the 

 mountain drops steeply to the north, north-west, and north- 

 east, so that viewed from Mt. Field or any mountains to the 

 north it appears as a fine pointed cone rising straight from 

 the plains and far higher than any other of the mountains 

 of the south-west. 



Lower spurs radiate on every side. To the north, the 

 least significant connects the mountain with Mt. Bowes. On 

 the west two ridges run out to the Huon. The more north- 

 erly is a rugged chain of peaks, about 3,000 feet high, steep 

 on all sides and precipitous on the north-west. The sky- 

 line of this ridge is very picturesque. The second ridge 

 runs parallel to it about a mile and a half farther south. 

 The contour of this ridge is smooth and rounded, but the 

 sides are nevertheless steep. A couple of miles farther 

 south and running south-west from the corner of Mt. Anne 

 is a third spur, shorter than the other two, but broken into 

 a number of ridges covered with undergrowth, which extend 

 in a series of low, broken, but steep hills for some miles to- 

 wards Lake Edgar. 



Behind this ridge lies Lake Judd, perhaps two miles in 

 length and half a mile wide, resting in a kidney-shaped 

 cirque which has been carved out of the very heart of the 

 mountain. East of the head of Lake Judd stands another 

 peak only a few hundred feet lower than the Mt. Anne 

 plateau, to which it is connected by a jagged comb ridge 

 circling round the north end of Lake Judd. From this peak 

 .several spurs radiate. A short one to the south-east forms 

 the other side of the Lake Judd cirque, and is again cut into 

 on the south-cast by another cirque. A second spur appears 

 to connect this peak with a flat-topped and isolated plateau 

 which forms the south-eastern butti'ess of the Mt. Anne 

 range, and is bounded on the south by the last mentioned 

 cirque and on the north-east by another cirque. Farther 

 north a third spur radiates to the east, stretching out several 

 miles to the Weld Valley. On the end of the higher portion 

 of this is a peculiar pillar of rock, standing several hundred 

 feet above the level of the top of the main ridge in a 

 tower only a few dozen feet in diameter, and forming the 

 most conspicuous landmark of the range. It is one of the 



