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of the plateau. The cirque wall now terminates in a 

 unique example of a comb ridge, so precipitous and jagged 

 that it would defy experienced climbers to traverse it. 

 Impounding the lake is the most pronounced moraine in the 

 locality. For a mile or more the country between the shore 

 of the lake and Lake Edgar in the Huon Valley to the south- 

 west and the Anne River to the south-east is covered with 

 the confused succession of ridges and hollows typical of 

 terminal morainal country so admirably described by Mr. 

 A. McI. Reid (Reid, 1919). Lake Judd closely resembles 

 Lake Seal in the National Park and Lake Dove on Cradle 

 Mountain, but is a grander piece of scenery than either of 

 these. 



To the east of Mt. Anne is the most extensive cirque in 

 the district. It appears to be deeper and is certainly 

 broader than the other two mentioned. Its western wall 

 must descend in a series of sheer precipices for 3,000 feet to 

 the level of the Weld Valley, wh^re lies a forest-encircled 

 lake perhaps half a mile long, presumably of glacial origin. 

 This cirque has eaten through the plateau until it has just 

 met the western cirque and has carved out the other side of 

 the comb ridge at the head of the Lake Judd Cirque. The 

 size of this cirque gives another example of the general rule 

 that the maximum snow action occurs on the lee of the 

 ridge — in Tasmania, the eastern side. This cirque is a 

 composite one with two main lobes and many smaller sub- 

 divisions. In its south-west corner it meets another 

 cirque that has grown from the south-east of the mountain. 

 Between these two cirques is a second comb ridge, somewhat 

 shorter but as rugged as the one before described. This 

 forms the summit of a long diabase spur at the end of 

 which stands the peculiar feature that has been named 

 "Lot's Wife," mentioned earlier. This pinnacle, standing 

 many hundred feet as perpendicularly and straight-sided as 

 a tower, is a striking example of a glacial horn. It has 

 grown at the entrance to two cirques, which, enlarging their 

 heads behind it. have removed the entire top of the pre- 

 glacial spur to a depth of some 500 feet and left this pillar 

 of rock standing at the end of the dividing ridge, the 

 uneroded remnant of the pre-glacial spur with its summit 

 representing all that is left of the original surface. 



On the south-east side of the mountain there arc two 

 (considerable cirques, the one mentioned above which has 

 met the eastern cirque, and the other a mile farther west 

 which has left a narrow ridge separating it from the Lake 



