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members tried their Jiands at endeavouring to induce the cray- 

 iislr with pieces of meat, to leave their rocky fastnesses in the 

 bottom of tlie basin but the crustaceans Avere far too Avary to 

 allow themselves to be brought to land. Messrs. Urich and 

 Keid having devoted their exclusive attention to the capture 

 of the crayfish and Mr. Broadway to a careful scrutiny of the 

 ferns Avhich tapestry the face of the cliff over which the river 

 precipitates itself into the basin beneath, Mr. Eagle and myself 

 under the leadership of Mr. Hewlett determined to make an 

 effort to reach the top of the fall. Taking the left side of the 

 hollow which forms the Basin, we ascended some twenty or 

 thirty yards and then struck out in the direction of the head 

 of the fall A few yards' progress brought us to what appeared 

 to be an insurmountable obstacle. On the right, the river side, 

 was an immense wall of rock ; on the left a declivity of a 

 gradient which although well covered with bush we did not cax'e 

 to venture on. In front was a dense mass of undergrowth with 

 a swampy soil, through Avhich slowly oozed and trickled slimy 

 water. Not discouraged, Mr. Hewlett, cutlass in hand, led the 

 way and forced a passage, through which Ave crept on hands and 

 kn<?es. After about ten yards of this uncomfortable mode of 

 locomotion we came to another wall, this time of earth, which 

 Ave ascended, reptile-like, upon the half rotten trunk of a fallen 

 tree. In some places Ave could stand, in others Ave progressed 

 on all fours, pulling each other up at times through the dense 

 undergrowth. One or tAvo ants Avere noticed, but otherAvise wc 

 appeared to be the only living things on the hillside. There 

 Avas not the note of a bird or the chirp of an insect to be heard 

 anyAvhere. After about an hour's climbing in this fashion Ave 

 reached the ridge of the hill and could once more hear the roar 

 of the river, Avhich, hoAvever, Avas out of sight. Judging by the 

 noise that Ave had still some distance to traverse to the left, we 

 commenced the descent in that direction, through rather more 

 open ground than that Avhich wc had traversed hitherto. After 

 about twenty minutes of this Avork Ave caught sight of the river 

 through the trees and soon afterwards found ourselves upon a 

 little rocky beach forming a smaller edition of the real Blue 

 Basin we had left beloAv. The precipice over Avhich the river 

 here hurled itself was far steeper than that of the Blue Basin 

 proper and the Avater in falling from a height Avhich is very little 

 inferior to the more Avidely knoAvn fall, formed a perfectly per- 

 pendicular pillar of foam of betAveen 5U and 60 feet, measuring 

 from the top to the small basin Avhich received it beneath. The 

 effect of the Avater had been to make a formation of the hill- 

 side similar to that Avhich Avould be the case if a Avell were 

 dug GO feet deep in the top of a hill and then one side of 



