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deep gullies and high ranges, timbered with, a 

 number of different kinds of eucalypti, a 

 variety of Banksia, and a casuarina new to 

 me, and an undergrowth of wattles, dogwood, 

 etc. We arrived at Bruthen about six o'clock. 



" The Tambo runs past this place, which is 

 most picturesquely situated, and is surrounded 

 by an amphitheatre of mountain ranges, 

 which seem quite near; and the river winds 

 through alluvial flats, of moderate extent, but 

 of magnificent soil, as the fine crops show 

 very clearly. I expected to have found the 

 water of this river much colder than that 

 of the Mitchell, as we were so much nearer 

 the mountains, but on reaching the stream I 

 found, to my surprise, that it was 75 deg. 

 The water was running swiftly, with a mur- 

 muring sound, over a beautiful bed of clean 

 gravel, and was clear, and pleasant to the taste, 

 the stream being 60 yards wide. Two hundred 

 were liberated in the fords here, and they found 

 shelter amongst the gravel from the strong 

 current, which carried them downwards. 



" The road beyond Bruthen towards the 

 Snowy river is bad to travel over by day- 

 light, but much worse by night, and Mr. 



