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be wrong in my estimate. In conclusion I may 
state that indisputable evidence exists to show that the lake ages 
ago covered at least twice its present area, without being perhaps 
more than double its present depth, and with a continuance of wet 
seasons there is nothing to prevent it Foot doing so again 
would be difficult to find clearer and more interesting evidence 
than is shown by the lake and its vicinity, that this has for count 
less ages been a land of flood and droughts 
Mr. John King, Mairburn, Metung, "Victoria, 16th March, 1885, 
bush were spent first at one end and then at the other of the lake, 
between the years 1834 and 1841. To be brief I will first notice 
the remarks I find in your book. ‘The old woman who saw it 
covered with trees must have meant some logs washed on to the 
surface, as I never saw a stump or root in what might be called 
the bed of the lake.’ As to the chain of ponds I always wondered 
at its singular level surface and absence of anything like a hole or 
md ; there were of course holes at the very edge of the lake at 
the end of Bungendore soa ‘As also at several other creeks but 
_ lake proper had no hoies. 
ir Thomas Mitchell speaks of a grassy plain in 1836, but the 
grass only grew at the north en and exten ded onlya ut 3 miles 
of Fat-hen extending all over the 
strip of grass along the western side ogg half-a-mile wide, which 
was probably what Sir T. Mitchell sa 
*‘ Bungey’s Hut or Muddy Water ‘iia surely mean one of the 
holes close to the edge of the lake. I never saw anything that 
could be so described in the lake itself. 
“Mr. C. Thomas’s statement that ‘the = was grow full in 
1840, the depth not exceeding 3 or 4 feet’ must also be a mistake 
in the sense that all the lake was s partly fall, There nn haves 
ies a strip of water on the east side, as that side was always the 
last part of the lake to be dried up. pets! it was the lowest 
ground or the subsoil was more retentiv 
“T first visited Lake George with a father, late Admiral P. P. 
King, in 1834, and the water on the eastern side seemed to be 
about 4 miles wide, the depth we could ak te certain. The south 
western side was dry enough to it of viii passing from 
The water ly receded from te oe 1838-39 when the 
whole surface of the lake bed was firm; no si 
waterholes or swamps, as I have cade it from end to end 
repeatedly. The lofty dead gums standing on the edges of 
lake, and on a few projecting points, rapa the idea that the 
lake had been low enough, long enough, to allow the trees to grow 
