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locaUy known as Salmon, Morrell and Gimlet 

 Gums, with, some belts of Pine at intervals. 

 Along the shores of the Great Australian Bight 

 the vegetation is scanty and inferior, chiefly of 

 stunted Bucalypts of the kinds last mentioned, 

 Casuarinas, the Cyclopis Wattle and Grass Tree. 

 It is not until the province of South Australia 

 is entered that any elevated country is met 

 with, and there the Flinders, Gawler and Mount 

 Lofty Ranges are merely chains of hills of in- 

 considerable extent. In these ranges the timber 

 consists of the Sugar Gum, the White Irbnbark, 

 two varieties of Stringy Bark, the White or 

 Manna Gum, She Oak, and in the valleys and 

 ravines Red Gum. It is, however, when the 

 western part of Victoria is reached that the 

 commencement of the great mountain system, 

 as well as forest region, of Eastern Australia is 

 seen. This extensive chain begins with the 

 Grampians, a series of sandstone ridges running 

 north and south, which rise sheer from the plains 

 and culminate in the peak of Mount William, 

 3,827 feet above sea-level. Near this peak the 

 spurs sink almost to the level of the plain, and, 

 gradually swelling again into a ridge of low hills, 

 rise to over 3,000 feet a few leagues to the east- 

 ward at Mount Cole, thence continuing across 

 the colony in an easterly direction under the 

 name of the great Dividing Range, and attain- 



