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The tract of country which the last mentioned route would 

 intersect extends from Frenchman's Cap, and the Elliott, 

 D'Aguilar, and Wilmot Ranges on the west, to the Humboldt 

 Divide, Mount FieJd, Wyld's Craig, and the King William 

 Ranu< on the east. Its southern boundary may be roughly 

 described as a line from the Frankland Range by Huon 

 Plains and Mount Wedge to the Humboldt Divide, and it is 

 bounded on the north by the Linda Track. The area of this 

 tract of country is not less than 1,000 square miles, very little 

 of which has ever been carefully examined, though it is con- 

 tiguous to some of the oldest settlements of the colony. The 

 greater part of it is wholly unexplored and unknown. 



Between the Frankland and Arthur Ranges and the South 

 West Coast there is a great extent of country which is still 

 almost a terra incognita; but this should be approached from 

 Port Davey, or other points along the coast line, and the 

 business of its exploration does not come within the limits of 

 a paper intended to deal only with the question of land 

 routes between the settled districts and the mining centres 

 which are alreadv established. 



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