OBSERVATIONS OX EXTINCT VOLCANOES IN 

 VICTORIA. 



By SAMUEL MACGREGOR. 



[COMMUNICATED BY THE HON. A. NORTON.] 



[Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 21st April, 1894.} 



Mount Eccles, which I first saw in January, 1841, is about 

 nineteen miles inland from the seashore, east of Portland Bay ; 

 its base is about 100 feet above sea level ; the mouth of the 

 crater at the west end may be another fifty feet. Following this 

 easterly to the end of the crater you reach the mount, which 

 forms a perfect cone, rising about 300 feet, thickly clothed with 

 grass and various pla,nts, and studded to the apex with lightwood 

 and sheoak trees of beautiful forms. From the top of the hill 

 on a clear day the view all round is most enchanting. Imme, 

 diately beneath the observer is the crater in which is the lovely 

 lake, with its perpendicular rocky wall on the south ; the east, 

 south, and west are less abrupt, and one can approach the lake 

 if careful. Trees grow all round the sides. The lake is about 

 half-a-mile in circumference, and must be of immense depth, 

 judging from the great quantity of lava which has been thrown 

 out of it, covering the surface on the north half-a-mile, east 

 seven miles, west six miles, south six miles ; from thence a 

 stream fully a mile in width, to near the seashore. I never had 

 an opportunity of ascertaining the depth of this large bed of 

 rocks, though in some places I have seen cavities over twenty 

 feet deep, and still rocks. 



On one occasion I, with a number of friends, wished to be 

 on the top of the hill at daybreak. We camped under an over- 

 hanging rock on the eastern end of the lake, at least 100 feet 

 above the water. Our fire did not burn freely, but not thinking 

 ot any danger we lay down to sleep. In the course of an hour 



