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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



The Loddon is an aggregation of between twenty and thirty creeks, all of them 

 taking their rise in the Great Dividing Range, or in the northerly spurs which it throws 

 off, and after pursuing an erratic course through the county of Talbot, it begins to 



flow in a direction al- 

 most due north, ser- 

 ving as a boundary line 

 between the counties 

 of Bendigo and Gam- 

 bier on its right bank, 

 and those of Gladstone 

 and Tatchera on its 

 left. Augmented on its 

 way by the waters of 

 Moonlight Creek and 

 the Murrabit River, it 

 flows into the Murray 

 near Swan Hill. This 

 stream is now playing 

 an important part in 

 the artificial irrigation 

 of the surrounding dis- 

 trict ; as is also the case 

 with the Campaspe, 

 which takes its rise in 

 the Dividing Range a 

 little to the westward 

 of Mount Macedon, 

 and having received the 

 waters of the Coliban 

 at Kimbolton, flows 

 through the spacious 

 plains which spread out 

 thence to the Murray, 

 into which it discharges 

 itself at Echuca. The 

 source of the Goulburn 

 must be sought in the 

 vicinity of Mount Mat- 

 lock, and from its rise 

 in this romantic region 



THE GOULBURN RIVER. 



until it reaches Avenel 



the course of the River lies through some of the grandest scenery in Victoria. Ranges 

 of heavily-timbered mountains flank it on both sides, leaving in some places a narrow 

 and tortuous hollow, through which the stream winds in an endless succession of curves. 



