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cut its course along the margin of the l^lue Mountain Range on 

 the west, and drains a broad expanse of heathy undulating plains, 

 wliich margin the coastline towards Cape Faterson and Waratah 

 Bay. 



From the Blue Mountain Range the watershed line proceeds 

 north-easterly to the heads of the Bass and Powlett. presenting 

 irregular contours, narrowing into an anticlinal ridge, expanding 

 to a broad flat range, rising to rounded heights, depressed to low 

 saddles, all covered with an abnost impenetrable forest growth. 



From the heads of the Powlett a minor watershed line radiates 

 to the south-east, dividing it from the Tarwin River Valley, and on 

 this the township of Korumburra, the centre of the Victorian 

 black coal industry, is situated. 



From this point, Bena, where the great southern railway crosses 

 the watershed line, it trends northerly, and is known as 

 McDonald's track; for a few miles it divides the waters flowing into 

 the Tarwin on the east from the Bass on the west, until another 

 minor watershed line trending westerly divides the Bass from the 

 Lang Lang, on which the township of Powong is situated. From 

 thence the main watershed line dividing the Tarwin and Lang 

 Lang rises in successive gradients to South Warragul, overlooking 

 the valley of the Latrobe; here a magnificent panorama is brought 

 into view through the clearings on the settlers' holdings. This 

 point de vue is 1,200ft. above sea level, and here the watershed line 

 trends easterly, separating the streams flowing northerly into the 

 Latrobe from those flowing southerly into the Tarwin. Away to the 

 south-east there is an apparently endless vista of dense forest-clad 

 ranges ; to the west, long sloping scul])tured ridges in the Lang 

 Lang watershed tail off towards the Koo-wee-rup swamp and the 

 waters of Western Port, which shimmer against the horizon. To 

 the north, far across the deep valley of the INIoe River, with long 

 reaches of swamp amid the forest in the middle ground, rise long 

 lines of spurs from the Great Dividing Range, which, becoming 

 azure-tinted in the distance, culminate in the snow-flecked peaks 

 of Mounts Baw Baw, I^seful, and other high altitudes. 



Looking at the contours it will be seen that the slojies towards 

 the Moe from the Strzelecki Range are steep and regular, indicating 

 an extensive fault scarp along which the Latrobe Valley was 

 lowered during later Tertiary time. The northern slopes of the 

 watershed line and several of the western watershed lines of 

 tributary valleys, as the Narracan and Morewell, present similar 

 fault scarps. Rising to an elevation of 1. 500ft. at Allambee, the 

 watershed line is depressed towards the heads of the Little jNIore- 

 Avell river, at Mirboo, at 800ft. above sea level. It rises again towards 

 Hoddle Range, and proceeds southerly, separating the Tarwin on 

 the west from the Franklin on the east. Rising still higher it finds 

 its culminating points in the Carrajimg and Calignee Ranges at the 

 heads of the Traralffon and Flvnn's Creek. 2,100ft. above sea level. 



