98 RINGBARKING AND ITS EFFECTs. 
I began on my own run at Glengarry, a is situated on fe 
Page River, about 12 thilen south-east from Murrurundi, and 
about 16 miles from the summit of Liverpoo al Range. 
The greater part of the land ringbarked is about 1,300 feet above 
sea-level by aneroid barometer measurement, though some of the 
ridges rise to a-height of 2,000 feet, and one or two of the highest 
peaks to nearly 3,000. The most of the run and all that which 
is been ringbarked is of voleanic formation, consisting of black 
soil flats and basaltic ridges with white box timber. 
In 1869 and 1870 I ringbarked the greater part of the waa 
shed of two small creeks and the whole of the watershed of a 
third ; each of these creeks being about 2 miles long, - io 
well-defined valleys shut in by high “i of basalt. refer 
to them in this paper as creeks No. 1, 2, and 3. i have a 
inquiries about them as far back as 1850, and find that from that 
date to 1860 they were dry water-courses ‘only holding water for 
few days after rain, and in a few places in the winter months 
always ae up comple — in summer and never running # 
streams at any tim 
rom ay own ienanthess from 1860 to 1870, I Know ae 
te, so 
was done in the 
to that time, nor paid much attention to them, 1 i. 
since. ri 1 4 
No. 2 creek contains about 850 acres, and is ring 4 ' 
same way as No. 1, that is about 300 acres of od Of 
have been left on the head of the creek. The 
No. 2 is narrower and about the same length a 
rallel to and divided from it = a soem 
but the area drained by it does not adjoin 
either of the former. It contain sabout 500 acres, 
seems to be less affected by oneness than either 0 
