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ing, in the Australian Alps towards the New 

 South Wales border, elevations of 5,000 to over 

 6,000 feet. Following the trend of the coast 

 the chain, now known as the Coast Eange, runs 

 northward through New South Wales, attaining, 

 near the upper course of the Eiver Murray, its 

 highest elevation in Mounts Kosciusko and 

 Townsend, 7,328 and 7,260 feet respectively. 

 Thence it continues through Southern Queens- 

 land to the twenty-first parallel of south latitude, 

 where it divides, one branch continuing north- 

 vard to Torres Straits, while the other turns 

 westward to the South Australian boundary, and 

 forms the watershed between the streams which 

 flow into the southern part of the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria, and those which run southward into 

 the Eiver Darling. The forest region of Southern 

 Victoria corresponds, to a considerable extent, 

 with that of Tasmania, the principal Eucalypts 

 being Blue Gum, Spotted Gum, Messmate, 

 Stringy Bark, Silver-top Ironbark and Mountain 

 Ash, with Evergreen Beech and Acacias such as 

 the Black Wood and several species of Wattle. 

 In the northern part of the colony the trees 

 are of a kind common to New South Wales. 

 Thus the best country bordering the Eiver 

 Murray and its southern tributaries is the home 

 of the flooded variety of Eed Gum, intermixed 

 with Grey Box and (near the Murray) Cypress 



