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difficult to get through. The members who were fishing caught 

 Parrot Fish and Australian Rockling, and they reported that both 

 kinds seemed plentiful ; a large crayfish was also seen. Those 

 who were dredging also were fairly successful in securing prin- 

 cipally Polyzoa. 



During the afternoon a visit was paid to the lighthouse, nearly 

 four miles from our camp. It is built on a hill over 900 feet high, 

 and one of the highest points of the island, and close to the steep 

 cliffs that run down to the sea. The lighthouse itself is built of 

 granite quarried hard by, and is a substantial structure. It was 

 erected more than 50 years ago, and has a flash light. The 

 Tasmanian Government intend, I believe, replacing the old light 

 at present used with a new one. The light is visible 36 miles off. 

 The two assistant lighthouse-keepers, Messrs. Franklin and 

 Hutchen, live in quarters close by, while the principal lighthouse- 

 keeper lives about a mile away, at the East Cove, in Murray 

 Pass ; there is telephone communication between the two places. 



The day being fine, we had a splendid view, and clearly saw the 

 high land of Wilson's Promontory, Rodondo Island, the Devil's 

 Tower, Hogan Group, Curtis Group, and Judgment Rocks. The 

 latter consist of three jagged looking rocks — one large and two 

 small — and they seem to lie in a line. The centre one is the 

 smallest, and there is a level platform on one portion of it which 

 the seals have chosen as one of their breeding grounds, and go 

 there every year, in November, to have their young ; a good many 

 get killed by the half-caste sealers from Flinders Island ; but it is 

 only when the sea is very smooth that a landing can be effected, 

 which is all in favour of the seals, otherwise the few there are 

 would stand a good chance of being driven away from the islands 

 of Bass Straits. The only other breeding ground near here is 

 Craggy Island, situated between Kent Group and Flinders Island. 

 From our high outlook, turning towards Tasmania, we could see a 

 large portion of the coast line of Flinders Island.also the Two Sisters 

 Islands, the Hummocks, and Craggy Island, and various small 

 rocks, all showing the chain of islands and rocks extending from 

 Wilson's Promontory, via Kent Group, Flinders and Barren 

 Islands, to Tasmania, the only portions left of the land that once 

 joined the two countries. Before leaving, photographs were taken 

 of the lighthouse and adjacent cliffs, and on our way back to camp 

 a pair of the Yellow-bellied Parrots and a Brush Bronzewing 

 Pigeon were seen ; and specimens were obtained of the Tasmanian 

 Fantail, Sombre-coloured Scrub Tit, Tasmanian Warbler, and a 

 hen Grey-tailed Thickhead, and also of a few beetles, spiders, and 

 scorpions. A large White-lipped Snake was seen, but we were 

 unable to capture it. When passing by the principal lighthouse- 

 keeper's quarters, we were surprised to see two English sparrows. 

 We could only account for their presence through their having 



