96 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST 
cattle going to water or to pasturage, gave the necessary moving 
life, while the picture was completed by the homesteads that stood 
amidst plots of cultivation smiling in their spring verdure. Young 
ladies vainly regretted that their sketch-books had not found 
a place in their necessary impedimenta. A pleasant walk of three 
miles and a half and the Moorabool Falls are reached, the piper 
struck up a triumphant pibroch, and on a little bank of brilliant 
green the camp is set, and the ever thoughtful president of the 
Ballarat Field Club soon has baskets opened up for a welcome 
snack, by way of a stay after an early breakfast and ramble. A 
little rest, and the falls and other beauties of the place are keenly 
examined, though when the piper plays dance music, young feet 
and some not so young, cannot resist the temptation of a highland 
fling. 
Our president and another now returned to the Lal Lal Falls, to- 
meet the Melbourne party conducted by Mr. Krausé. The Lal Lal 
Creek has at this place cut its way through the basalt, and falls a 
depth of 110 feet. On either side of the stream, below the falls, fair, 
specimens of basaltic columns rise. Descending to the bed of the 
stream, it is found to be working its way through basalt boulders, 
‘that give place to granite, where the volcanic stream seems to have 
ceased. A mile of very rough walking, and the party including 
one lady, reached the junction of the creek and the Western 
Moorabool River. Our leader promising an easier walk, the 
journey was continued up the latter stream. On the way the 
entomologists regretted that the fine bushes of Bursarza spznosa,. 
passed on the way were not yet in bloom, as then they might have 
reaped a fine harvest of beetles, etc. A bar of basalt crossing the 
river, causes small falls, and adds to the beauty of the gorge. 
About a quarter of a mile further, and the pretty Moorabool Falls 
come into view, the river shooting out over the basalt and falling 
about fifty-two feet into the pool below. Unfortunately for the 
collectors of fresh water algz, there was too strong a current for 
their branch of naturalising. 
The geological features of the district are made up of post, upper 
and middle pliocene, newer volcanic, lower silurian, and granite. From 
amap published by Mr. Krausé in the Ballarat School of Mines Report 
for 1882, it will be observed that of a large portion, the description 
is post pliocene on volcanic, on middle pliocene on granite. The map 
also shows how a lava stream , descending from Mt. Buninyong 
or Warrenheip, certainly extinct volcanoes, notwithstanding Dr. 
Taylor’s theories, blocked the old lead with its many lateral streams 
forming a lake with its flood waters, and as the paper by Mr. Krausé 
tells us, discharged their transported debris of trunks of trees, roots,. 
branches, leaves, and fruit, other physical changes occurring; thick 
beds of clay and gravel overspread the vegetable layers, and 
