220 NARRANGULLEN. 



at " Narrangullen," a fine flat, abounding* in 

 excellent pasturage, with thickly wooded hills. 

 This was formerly a sheep station, but deserted 

 from the great losses sustained by the sheep 

 devouring their lambs.* 



From this place we passed up a gully, bounded 

 by lofty mountains, thinly- wooded, which brought 

 us to the almost perpendicular ascent of an ele- 

 vated mountain, which certainly gave me a 

 few ideas of what Nature's roads may have- 

 been in this colony before the formation of new 

 ones came* into fashion. This I was told, was 

 one road to the farm, and the shortest, but there 

 was another for drays not so steep, but many 

 miles further round ; by that one we proposed 

 returning as soon as the visit to the farm was 

 concluded. We led our'horses, or rather they 

 scrambled up this steep acclivity, to the summit 

 of a ridge of mountains, from which the view 

 was magnificent ; it seemed as if Nature had 

 sported with her superfluities in the formation 

 of this country ; mountains over mountains 

 heaped : some were thinly and others densely 

 covered with timber ; the tout ensemble formed 

 a splendid specimen of wild and romantic sce- 



X For an account of this , unnatural fact, and the sup- 

 posed cause that produced it, see a separate account in the 

 Appendix, at the end of the second volume. 



