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tree left in the hollows, but it had been reclaimed to some effect, the 
air was sweet with the smell of the clover, and there were large herds 
of fat cattle in the paddocks. After passing Caldermead we began 
to cross inlets from Westernport, running up into Kooweerup. The 
country became very flat covered with masses of dead tea-scrub. 
The last of these inlets was at Tooradin, where we camped for the 
night. We had come that day twenty-two miles. The next day 
we continued through Cranbourne to Dandenong, a distance of 
eighteen miles, where we left the horse, and returned by rail to 
Melbourne, the fifteenth day after we had left. 
NOTES ON A TRIP TO THE CAVES NEAR 
CHUDLEIGH, TASMANTA. 
By F. WisEwovu.tp. 
Tuesx Cayes are situated on the Mole Creek at the foot of the 
mountains, near Chudleigh, Tasmania, about fifty miles from 
Launceston. 
The easiest way to reach them is. by rail to Deloraine, on the 
Western line, a distance of about forty miles, and thence by convey- 
ance or horseback through Chudleigh, some ten miles further on, but 
if walking exercise is approved of, the walk from Deloraine is very 
pleasant and enjoyable. 
The most comfortable way to see them is to appropriate one day 
to the journey to the foot of the mountains, camp there the night, 
or if camping out is not eared for, a farm-house is close at hand, 
where a coil up under cover can be obtained. At this plaee also 
you will obtain your guide to take you into the Caveg next day. 
The following day should then be appropriated to the Caves, and 
before starting, a careful change of all our clothing must be made, 
putting on any old garments which we have taken care to have with ~ 
us, as we shall come out cold and wet through. We may then 
proceed to an inspection, but first, let us have some idea, if possible, 
of the locality. 
Tn front of us, and almost in a semicircle, are the mountains, some 
distance up which is the source of the Mole Creek, (go called, I 
believe, because it runs some distance under the earth), which runs 
through the Caves, and which, shortly after starting disappears 
under the earth, making its appearance again at the mouth of the 
second Cave, it then runs about quarter of a mile between high 
banks and again disappears into the first Cave, runs across its 
mouth only again to disappear for nearly a mile, although during 
