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source runnells at Mount Howitt and on the Snowy Plains. An 

 eastern tributary rises at Mount Selwyn, and traverses wild 

 mountain country at pi'esent comparatively unexplored. On the 

 west, another important tributary, the Moroka, has excavated a 

 picturesque valley, in which are found spots of wild and rugged 

 grandeur. Bold fortress-like outlines, as at Snowy Bluft', give 

 place at higher levels to escarped heights, as Mount Kent and 

 Castle-hill ; while deep chasm-like valleys stretch back into dim 

 and unvisited recesses, down which the source runnells fall head- 

 long thousands of feet from the upland summits of the Snowy 

 Plains table-land and adjoining mountains. Below the Moroka 

 River junction, some moderate sized flats replace the steep side- 

 lings of the upper valley ; among the former may be mentioned 

 the Eagle Vale flats. The Wongungarra River, rising at Mount 

 Twins, winds through mountain defiles to its junction with the 

 Wonnangatta below Eagle Vale, receiving from the east the 

 interesting mountain torrent, known as the Crooked River, which 

 drains the western margin of the Dargo High Plains. 



The Dargo, rising at Mount Hotham, and draining the eastern 

 portion of the Dargo High Plains as well as the western portion of 

 the Main Dividing Range, also winds between the terminal spurs 

 of steep ranges until near its junction with the Mitchell ; where 

 at Dargo Flat the valley widens and some fine flats and undulating 

 foot-hills mark the area occupied by the Dargo Agricultural 

 Settlement. Another tributary further to the east, rising at the 

 main divide opposite, head of the Livingstone Creek, and draining 

 a bold range to the east on which Mount Baldhead is situated, 

 presents similar features. This is the Wentworth River. Below 

 the Wentworth junction, the Mitchell River is hemmed in by 

 high mountain ridges for many miles, until the rich .alluvial flats 

 near Lindenow are reached. This portion of the valley has been 

 ably described by my friend Mr. Howitt, in his admirable descrip- 

 tion of a voyage down stream in a blackfellow's canoe.* 



The physiography of the Tambo River Valley has been elsewhere 

 described in each detail by the writer,! that a brief reference to 

 the leading topographical features is all that is necessary here. 

 The upper sources intersect the charming area of limestone hills 

 known as Bindi ; the middle portion, the alluvial flats of Tongio 

 and Swift's Creek junction, an eastern tributary intersecting fine 

 pasture hills at Ensay — this is the Little River Settlement. At 

 lower levels the Tambo receives its most important affluent from 

 the east of the Timbarra, while at still lower levels the valley 

 narrows to a gorge-like canon, until the fine alluvial flats near 

 Brenthen are reached. 



* Progress Reports, Geological Survey Victoria. (Notes on the Devonian Rock of North 

 Gippsland.) 

 + The Physiography of the Tambo Valley. Trans. Geol. Soc, Australasia, 1887. 



