TOPOGRAPHY OF VICTORIA. 



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are, to all intents and purposes, one sheet of water. But in the narrow strip of country 

 which separates them from the sea, and which in some places is less than two miles 



THE GIPPSLAND LAKES. 



wide, a chain of salt-water lagoons skirts the Ninety-mile Beach for a distance of about 

 fifty or sixty miles, the largest of which, entitled Lake Reeve, constitutes a kind of 

 back-water in connection with Lake King and Lake Victoria. 



By the usual route from Melbourne, Lake Wellington is reached through one of its 

 principal affluents, the River Latrobe, which begins to be navigable for steamers of 

 shallow draft a short distance from Sale. The stream winds through belts of ti-tree 



