126 THE HIGHLANDS OF LAKE ST. CLAIE 



Sappho ; furthur west are other sheets of water, which 

 are probably Lake Lemona and Lake Ina. The lakelets 

 at the foot of the crags upon which we stood, and which 

 might be named the " Pools of Olympus," are exactly similar 

 to the Cumberland and Welsh tarns, which are to be found 

 beneath the summits of nearly all the British mountains ; 

 they are almost cii'cular, with their immediate surroundings 

 bare and flat. In the Old Country these tarns are usually full 

 of trout and many a good day's sport is to had " whipping " 

 round the edges with a long "cast" and a taking fly ! 



The country to the north-west of Lake St. Clair could be 

 explored by going to the head of the lake in a boat and 

 following up the Narcissus River, the source of the Derwent, to 

 the foot of the Du Cane Range, which might then be ascended 

 and a topographical sketch of the country to the north of the 

 range made. I do not know whether the tract between the 

 Canning and the Rugged Mountain has been explored, but it 

 could be done from this side and the settlements at the head 

 of the Mersey reached, if the explorers did not wish to cross 

 the Forth to the Vale of Belvoir, taking the Cradle Mountain 

 en route. 



I must not forget to mention that there is a little lake 

 under the northern side of Mount Hugel, about three miles 

 from the Cuvier River, and this I named Lake Hermione. 

 On our return we found the button-grass in the valley, and 

 though it was drizzling at the time a huge fire sprung up 

 at night and burnt all the following day, so that the next 

 pedestrians who ascend Olympus will have better walking 

 than we had. 



From the observations made in this paper it will be seen 

 that the western limits of what might be termed the lower 

 lake plateau, and which is bounded on the south by the 

 Native Tier and other continuous slopes, are Mount Arrow- 

 smith and the descent down into the valley of Rasselas from 

 the head waters of the Gordon, these tracts being looked upon 

 as ramifications of the plateau beyond the Derwent. The 

 valleys of the Cuvier and the ISTarcissus are also further 

 ramifications of this lower plateau, and the high mountains 

 to the north-west of these valleys are the limits of the upland 

 in that direction. Then the higher lake plateau, which 

 contains the Great Lake and the system of smaller waters at 

 the head of the Pine River, and thence westward to Lake St. 

 Clair, ends in the high ridges overlooking the eastern shores 

 of that lake and the valley of the Narcissus. I subjoin an 

 ideal section of these uplands, which may assist in illustrating 

 my meaning, if examined in conjunction with the maps 

 accompanying them. 



