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Gang Gang cockatoo, with the king lory and Pennant's parrakeet, 

 and, of course, the laughing jackass. After walking twelve miles 

 we reach our stores, and have to put our tents up, whilst the rain 

 falls heavily ; though, fortunately, in the course of the evening 

 it clears off, and we manage to get tolerably dry (3). We are visited 

 in the evening by Mr. Lees, the surveyor in charge of the camp 

 close at hand. JHe most kindly offered us any assistance which 

 lay in his power in the matter of stores, &c., and our best thanks 

 are due to him for his kindness. Some of our party paid a visit 

 to his camp in the evening. 



Saturday, 5TH January. — By invitation, we breakfast early 

 with Mr. Lees in the survey camp, and are enabled through his 

 kindness to send letters into Orbost. It is still early when we 

 part, as our paths lie in different directions, and we are soon 

 passing along Bruce's track leading north-east. We are now on 

 a long spur leading up to the M'Culloch Range, and the ground 

 gradually rises : the forest is composed principally of young 

 stringybarks, with burnt trunks from which young foliage is 

 sprouting out, giving a curious appearance to the trees. The 

 hills are composed of silurian rocks until after about five miles, 

 according to the survey measurements, a change comes, and the 

 track passes over a bed of conglomerate with large quartz 

 fragments. 



It may here be mentioned that the traveller in Croajingolong 

 finds two or three different styles of measurements of distances. 

 The first is the surveyor's ; this appears to be taken in a straight 

 line from tree to tree along the track, without paying any regard 

 to the ups and downs and roundaboutness of the track. The 

 second is the idea of distance of those who ride on horseback, 

 and which, greater than the former, is considerably less than the 

 mileage as registered by the pedometer of our party as we tramp 

 along on foot. 



After less than a mile's walk we pass off the conglomerate on 

 to silurian sandstones. The track now bends round, turning 

 south-east, and looking through the trees over a valley to the 

 north, we can see the central points of the M'Culloch Range, 

 Mount Lookout, and behind this Mount Tanglefoot. Both are 

 conical peaks clothed with forest to their tops. 



After eight miles' walk we halt for the midday rest in a gully 

 just before starting a steep climb on to the range. The valley is 

 filled with large white-gums, amongst which we see the cotton 

 tree and Pittosporum, with Smilax and supplejack, and the dark 

 leaves of Lyonsia straminea. Southwards from the gully runs one 

 of the streams which form the Cabbage Tree Creek. After a 

 short halt we start up the hillside, and, leaving the sandstone, 

 pass on to granite. In Mr. Stirling's map this granite is 

 apparently omitted, but it continues from this point for some six 



