lengthened, narrow sheet of water to the westward, on the 

 plain below. Far away to the soutli-west the Frenchman's Cap 

 stood up against the horizon, and to the southward lay the 

 Lakes Augusta and Ada, and the other waters of the Nineteen 

 Lagoons. Turning to the lel't after leaving the saddle, and 

 skirting the upj)er part of Ironstone Mountain, we proceeded 

 nearly in the direction of the Split Rock trigonometrical 

 station, passing over ground covered with Astelia aljjiiia, and 

 soon came to a small lake, which proved to be Lake Meander, 

 the chief source of the Meander River. 



Leaving Lake Meander, with its bright and pellucid water, 

 and scrambling down the bed of a rivulet running to- 

 wards the east, we soon found ourselves at the brink of a vast 

 precipice, over the face of which the water of th*^ rivulet was 

 falling in ar long silvery sheet, frayed at the edges into foam 

 and liquid ravellings, and plashing into a nearly circular 

 basin. Before us lay, in grand ruggedness and con- 

 fusion of huge crags and great bare patches covered with 

 rocks and stones, interspersed with lines and clumps of 

 small trees and straggling shrubs fighting a hard battle of 

 life for bare existence, the immense gorge at the bottom of 

 which the rapid and winding Meander rushes along its sound- 

 ing course to the plains below. This gorge extends upwards 

 beyond " The Falls " for about a quarter of a mile, and termi- 

 nates in a short curve where a stream runs under rocks from 

 a pretty, little shallow lake, not far off, which I named " Lake 

 Pediluvium," for a reason v/hich can be as well imagined as 

 described. From the cliff, to the westward of the end of the 

 gorge. The Falls looked like a tiny thread of silver, suspended 

 from the brink of the precipice above, and we could not hear 

 the noise they produced, after our rough scramble down the 

 rocks and through the shrubs at the end of the gorge, until 

 we were within about fifty yards of the pool into which the 

 water tumbled after its gigantic leap. 



On viewing The Falls from the front they had the appearance 

 of an unbroken descending line ; but, on moving to the right 

 or left, it became evident, at once, that they consisted of two 

 parts separated by the basin which we had seen from the 

 summit of the rocks. When standing close to the foot 

 of the lower fall the effect was very grand, as the broken sheet 

 of bright water, splashing, foaming, hissing, rent into a 

 thousand fragments, then united, fell in a continuous torrent 

 at our feet, just, in a word, as "the water comes down at 

 Lodore." 



One of my companions mounted to the summit of the 

 lower fall, close to the basin, which we had seen from 

 above, somewhat of a circular outline, and found it to 



