280 BLOWRIN FLAT. 



*' Gheek" flowing down in another direction, 

 (emptying itself into the Tumat,) gives the flat 

 a heart-shaped form. It is surrounded by lofty 

 mountains, small fertile flats and thinly-wooded 

 ranges, abounding in rich pasturage. Nature 

 has made it a beautiful spot, and it is capable of 

 much improvement from the labour of man. 

 The aborigines, among the tribes in this part of 

 the colony, having found out that by killing the 

 cattle of the settlers, they can procure a larger 

 supply of food with less trouble than by hunt- 

 ing, have commenced spearing cattle ; it was 

 this which formerly led to the sanguinary skir- 

 mishes with the Bathurst natives, the «tock- 

 keepers shooting the blacks, and they, in return, 

 m rdering any Europeans who fell in their way, 

 the lives lost on both sides were numerous. 



About ten or twelve miles from this station 

 there is a small fertile plain, or flat, called 

 "Blowrin;" it abounds in rich herbage, and 

 is surrounded by woody and verdant ranges of 

 hills, with the Tumat river flowing through it, 

 besides being irrigated by numerous rivulets. In 

 the vicinity of this plain, small mountain rills 

 would be seen gushing over the abrupt decli- 

 vities into the vales beneath, refreshing the 

 vegetation, so profuse about these spots. On 

 the rich grassy plain, the " sparkling cowslip" 



