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A CORRELATION OF CONTOUR, CLIMATE AND COAL, 



rise to the New England "Massif" (using this term in its broadest 

 sense to indicate a huge land mass), the Blue Mountain Massif, 

 and towards the south the Monaro Massif. [The isolated 

 Canoblas elevation (see fig.l) is of little importance in the broad 

 questions discussed.] 



Between these elevated areas are situated, first the Cassilis 

 Geocol — with its lowest points at Ardglen and Rylstone — and 

 secondly, the less important Lake George G-eocol between the 

 Blue Mountain and Southern land-masses. 



Fig. 1. -Contour diagram of New South Wales. Land elevated above 1500 

 feet indicated approximately by the hatched areas. Over 3000 feet by the 

 opaque areas. The three ' ' land massifs " and the Cassilis Geocol are shown, 

 together with other localities mentioned in the text. 



The plateau-like character of the New England elevation — so 

 strongly insisted on by Mr. E. C. Andrews — is brought out by 

 the large model of New South Wales forming the basis of the 

 figures (Plates xlvii.-xlviii.). One can see that it is of greater 

 physiographical prominence than the Kosciusko massif, though — 

 perhaps owing to the type of hachures employed hitherto on 

 Australian maps — the current opinion is that the New England 

 area is of much less bulk than the higher Southern Mountains. 



