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more imposing. It is possible to work up the creek to the Falls, 

 and probably that will be the way tourists will visit them when 

 the place is opened up, but we thought climbing the spur on the 

 opposite side of the creek would be the most expeditious for us, 

 and so adopted it. Crossing the creek by an adzed log, which is 

 also a sign that one has reached the right creek, we started up the 

 track, which zig-zags up the face of the spur. I might mention 

 here that Mr. Campbell makes the height of the junction 1,760 

 feet above sea level, showing a rise of about 770 feet in the fifteen 

 miles from M'Veigh's. 



The steepness of the spur taxed our powers, especially as we 

 were anxious to lose no time. The ridge is very narrow. After 

 several hundred feet we could see the gorge of Falls Creek and 

 hear the noise of the descending waters, and afterwards got a 

 glimpse of one of the cascades, but we kept on till we reached 

 the summit, where there are some fair-sized trees. We had 

 climbed about 1,200 feet in perhaps a mile and a half, and, 

 following Mr. Campbell's advice, now made down towards the 

 gorge, and were fortunate enough to strike the creek just where 

 it makes its first leap. On the other side I fancy I recognized the 

 rocky wall down which the excursion party from this Club 

 clambered when they reached it sixteen years before (Vict. 

 Nat., vii., 168.) It was now time for lunch, which was partaken 

 of within sight and sound of the topmost cascade, after which 

 some clambering about the Falls was indulged in, and some photos, 

 taken, but we felt we had not time to descend right to the 

 bottom of the gorge — some 700 feet — so left that for some future 

 time. 



The Falls have been visited by very few tourists — in fact, the 

 first ladies only got there at Christmas. Our party of ten was the 

 largest which has yet visited them, and my boy can claim to be 

 youngest person who has yet seen them. 



Having given you a sketch of how we reached the Falls, I will 

 briefly recall the trip of Prof Spencer and party in November, 

 1890. At that time there was no railway to Warburton, and the 

 road was open only as far as Reefton ; thence a blazed track led 

 along the range, bounding the Yarra valley on the south ; so they 

 decided to go to Marysville and follow the old Yarra track or 

 Wood's Point road to the junction of the Matlock-Tanjil track, 

 then follow that southwards some 12 miles till it cut the Reefton 

 track ; then some 5 miles westward brought them to the vicinity 

 of the Falls. 



From their description they must have passed through 

 much more interesting country than that traversed by the 

 present track, but had we continued on the track for only a 

 couple of miles further we should have passed from the Silurian to 

 the granite, and would then have been able to record a much 

 greater variety of plants and shrubs. However, Mr. A. G. Camp- 



