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and a half miles to the head of Long Fall, thereby cutting 

 off a large elbow of the river, and avoiding Hell's Grates, 

 Long- Tom Fall, and the Broken Road, all difficult for boats. 

 From Long Fall we again took boat and pulled about a mile 

 up a beautiful still reach, the banks studded with ferns and 

 pinkwood in full flower, and landed on the right bank. From 

 this landing place is a pathway, considerably less distinct than 

 a wombat track, for about eight miles chiefly among button 

 grass, to their general rendezvous opposite the Bark Hut 

 Creek. Here the timbered flat is wide, and this has been 

 one of the most prolific beds, as the stumps testify ; and 

 although some pioneers, Doherty, Woolley, and others have 

 pushed on further up the stream, there are still many trees got 

 from this locality, foi'merly overlooked or considered too 

 difficult of access. There are numerous young trees growing 

 up, which should be preserved till they have attained a 

 certain size. Here are generally several boats on each side of 

 the river for persons going or returning. Navigation extends 

 very little further, except for log-clearing. There is a track 

 to the settlement down the left or east side also, but it is 

 about three miles longer than the other, and the Crossing 

 Eiver has to be forded. 



The Crossing Eiver, which comes from the Arthur Range, 

 is sometimes called locally the Davey River, being rather the 

 wider of the two at their confluence ; and the Davey River 

 proper is, in that case, called the DeWitt River, the DeWitt 

 going by the name of Badger Creek. This is owing, in a 

 great measure, to the meagre information on the official map. 

 The Davey rises between the junction and Wilmot Ranges, 

 and flows down the wide valley to the west and southwest 

 of the Frankland Range, in two branches, which unite about 

 a mile above Bark Hut Creek. The Crossing River joins the 

 Davey about two miles above the Long Fall, coming in 

 abruptly from the south-east, having burst through a high 

 range by a narrow ravine in the same unexpected manner as 

 the united streams pass through the gorge of Hell's Gates, 

 instead of traversing the low valley which seems to be the 

 natural course. Many of the small creeks have the same 

 peculiarity, so that it is difficult to make a correct topo- 

 graphical sketch of the district on a short visit. My 

 opportunities of taking observations were too few to enable me 

 to submit with any confidence a plan to illustrate the district. 



The pine trees grow in the densely timbered alluvial flat in 

 the valley of the river, subject to frequent inundations, and 

 varying in width from about 100 to 1,200 yards, intersected 

 by a network of creeks and channels formed by the flood 

 waters, and filled in the winter months. These channels 



