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and on the surface appears the cheapest way of providing 

 transport facilities to the back country here. 



Mt. Anne when opened up will prove one of the fore- 

 most scenic areas of our island, and probably its most pro- 

 mising future appears to lie in its being made accessible 

 for ordinary tourists. 



APPENDIX (A.) 

 (Extract from account by H. Judd, 1898.) 

 Contributed by Major L. F. Giblin. 



You pass on up the same river [Weld] until you come 

 under the northern end of the Weld Mountain, which is very 

 high and rugged, and here you hear the sound of a distant 

 waterfall. The next object you see is Mt. Ann, which has a 

 pinnacle of rock, which takes many different forms as you 

 go round the mount, which is 5,020 feet high. Upon the 

 southern side there is a stream of water that flows over a 

 ledge of rock upon the top of the mount into space. So 

 very high is it that it is thrashed into vapour before it can 

 get to the earth, and has the appearance of a floss of silk 

 floating about in the air by the change of wind. In this 

 way the forest is watered by a vapour from it. At the 

 western end of Mt. Ann you enter a small belt of low gum 

 trees, then comes before you one of the most enchanting 

 sights that anyone ever wished to behold. 



This mountain has been burst open by some great power 

 in Nature, leaving it with perpendicular walls of over 4,000 

 feet high upon three sides, and filled up with a beautiful 

 lake called Lake Judd, discovered in 1880. This lake is 

 about one and a half miles long and half a mile broad ; 

 perhaps it is larger, as I had no means of measuring it. The 

 beauty here cannot be exaggerated. As you look into the 

 water you at once see all the surrounding beauty of these 

 high walls, with their rugged rocks and lovely spots of all 

 sorts of green and dead reflected in the water below, with 

 the dropping water from the snow above. When I first 

 found this lake I was upon the top of the mountain, and 

 came suddenly upon the edge of the large vault below, 

 which made me tremble with fear, as I was in snow at the 

 time, December. Opposite to this, westerly, is another open- 

 ing between two mountains, and as you enter it you come to 

 where the sides of the hill arc broken back and a miniature 

 lake in the centre. Proceeding further a new sight bursts 

 into view, and you find that the inner part of the high 

 mountain is thrown back on every side, opening out the 



