A USTRALASIA ILL US TRA TED. 



THE NORTHERN FACE OF 

 MOUNT BOGONG. 



extension, of that which runs down 

 the whole of the Australian Continent 

 from Cape York to Forest Hill, at which point it 

 is deflected to the south-westward, so as still to 

 maintain, in the direction it assumes, that paral- 

 lelism to the coast which it has observed in its 

 previous course. At Mount Baw Baw it appears to 

 send out a southerly tier of equal magnitude and 

 altitude to that which constitutes its western exten- 

 sion, and this stretches to the sea-coast, and re-appears on the island of Tasmania. 

 Entering the colony at Forest Hill, the Great Dividing Range sweeps round in a 

 semicircle to the peak, six thousand and twenty-five feet high, known as the Cobberas, 



