CH. I.J MOUNT MURULLA. 25 



Liverpool range, and being visible from Warrawolong, is 

 consequently an important point in the general survey of the 

 colony. 





(A) Mount Murulla,from " Wingen." 



From Murulla, the range we had crossed extends east- 

 ward, enclosing the valley in which we were encamped, and 

 which gives birth to the river Page. Our way now lay west- 

 ward, towards the head of this valley, in order to cross by 

 the usual route, the higher and principal range, which still 

 lay to the north. We traversed, this day, six miles of the 

 valley, and encamped beside a remarkable rock, near to 

 which the track turned northward. I rode a little beyond 

 our bivouac, and chanced to fall in with a tribe of natives 

 from Pewen Bewen on Dart Brook, one of whom afterwards 

 visited our camp, but he could tell us little about the in- 

 terior country. The whole of the valley appears to con- 

 sist of good land, and the adjacent mountains afford excellent 

 sheep pasture. In the evening, a native of Liverpool plains 

 came to our tents ; I gave him a tobacco-pipe, and he 

 promised to shew me the best road across them. Thermo- 

 meter at sunset 84°. 



Dec. 5. — This morning we ascended Liverpool range, 

 which divides the colony from the unexplored country. 

 Having heard much of this difficult joass, we proceeded cau- 

 tiously, by attaching thirteen bullocks to each cart, and 

 ascending with one at a time. The pass is a low neck, named 



