NOTES UPON FLOODS IN LAKE GEORGE. 253 
Extract from the Report of the Commissioner of Enquiry) John 
Thomas Bigge) into the condition of New South Wales. 
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a eputy Surveyor General, who visited the lake 
(Bathurst) in 1818, is of opinion that it had much increased in 
sizein the interval”; 1819 wet, three floods in Hawkesbury this year. 
strongly tinged with ochreous clay of the shores, “On approaching 
the N.E. shore of Lake George the swampy meadows are of 
greater extent, and reach to the margin of the lake, where they are 
separated by rocky projections of sandstone. The extent of the 
lake from N. to 8. is nearly 18 miles and its main breadth is from 
5 to 7 miles. Dead trees were observed in it to a considerable 
distance from its present shores and the person who had discovered 
it in the month of August preceding, that is 1818, seemed im- 
pressed with the belief that the expans2 of water had considerably 
increased.” 
The water itself had been represented to be salt, but it was 
found by experiment to be remarkably soft though turbid. The 
lake is bounded on the west by a table chain of rocky hills 
elevated from 800 to 1,500 feet above its level, and it was from 
one of these that Mr. Oxley thought he descried a mountainous 
chain to the W. and N.W. of Bateman’s Bay, on the eastern 
coast of New South Wales, distant about 40 miles. 
age 8. He mentions that on the journey from Bathurst to 
Lake Bathurst he passed many swampy places. 
Page 9. The elevation of the country in the Western side of the 
Blue Mountains is strongly marked by the rapidity and fullness 
of the streams of water and their abundance in every direction. 
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marked edge of the lake 
500 to 600 feet from 
23 VR edge of timber on west 
SS) , side along the road from 
Gundaroo to Collector. 
ROAD 
. F. Mann’s plan, 
29th March, 1856, shows 
Ne f Cooper's 45 acres, block 
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