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from Tasmania or New Zealand, we should expect that most of them 
would bo gneiss, or schist, or sandstone, while granite would be rare. 
Largo granite blocks, brought down by ice, are found in Preservation 
Inlet, in New Zealand; but this granite is a remarkable one, and a 
fragment of it could probably be recognised. From Australia itself 
the erratics could not have come, if' they are ice-borne, because 
Australia could not have boea sufficiently glaciated to furnish ice- 
bergs.” Captain llutton expresses grave doubts as to their being ice- 
borne, but admits that as he has not seen the locality he cannot judge 
of the evidence. 
In tSSG Professor Lendenfeldt published an account* of an 
exploration of the Victorian Alps, with special reference to Mount 
Bogong, by himself and Mr. James Stirling. 
He states (op. cit ., p. 73) — “ Since then— [the date of the publica- 
tion of his report upon Mount Kosciusko— T.W.E.D]— the following 
three instances have been discovered of glacier traces, situated at a 
much lower level : — 
1. Beautiful stride have been observed in the Mount Safety 
Group, near Adelaide, at an elevation of 2,000 feet, far 
away from any high mountains. These have been 
photographed, and the photos show the strise very clearly. 
2. An isolated erratic block of great size near Jackandandah, 
on the northern foot of the Bogong flanges, at an 
elevation loss than 2,000 feet. 
3. An immense accumulation of angular blocks — a moraine 
— taking up a portion of the valley of Mountain Creek, 
at an elevation of 2,000 feet. This last has been observed 
by myself. 
These facts show that in these three places the glaciers extended 
down to a level of 2,000 feet at least. Particularly interesting are 
the undoubtable glacier traces in the Mount Safety Group. It is 
evident that glaciers could be formed at such a low level only, when 
the climate was totally different from what it is now.” 
The position of the “ Mount Safety Group, near Adelaide,” is 
unknown to me, and 1 have concluded that it must be a misprint for 
the “ Mount Lofty ltange.” As far as I am aware, however, no 
striated pavements nor any indubitable traces of glaciation have been 
discovered as yet within that raugo at such an altitude as 2,000 feet. 
Possibly the Hallett’s Cove glaciated area has been confounded with 
Mount Lofty, but at the former locality the traces of glaciation have 
not been^ observed for much over 100 feet above sea-level. Mr. 
James Stirling, in the same report as that which contains the reference 
above quoted from Hr. Lendenfeldt’s exploration of Mount Bogong, 
page 77, states — “ In the Mountain Creek Valley, at the northern 
base of Mount Bogong, large masses of angular and water-worn 
masses of rock are strongly suggestive of distributed or scattered 
moraines * * * At the base of the mountain, near theKiewa, large 
masses of compact granitic rock are seen smoothed and rounded, also 
strongly suggestive of glacier abrasion.” 
In 1885 Mr. It. B. Oldham, Assoc. It.S.M., visited New JSouth 
Wales, and was directed by Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson to a spot near Branxton, 
* The Goldfields of Victoria : Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter 
ending 31st March, 1886. By authority : Melbourne ; pp. 71-76. With five plates. J 
