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side there are a few honeysuckles. Thence, towards the 
Mitta-Mitta, the country is undulating and well-grassed, 
with a few small gums. At Smoking Gully the forest of 
the southern slope consists of peppermint. At the foot 
of the slope, and also on the summit, there are white- 
gums, and on some of the rises she-oaks and honeysuckle. 
From Smoking Gully to Livingstone Creek the country is 
ridgy, in part undulating, but everywhere well grassed. 
The forest consists principally of white-gum. 
The steep slopes around the township of Omeo are 
well grassed, and the timber—chiefly peppermint, a kind 
of box (new to us), and large gums in the flats—was 
everywhere healthy in appearance. Some small patches 
of ground enclosed for corn, near the creek, and the small 
gardens in the town, were green, and the growth of every 
plant seemed to he luxuriant. 
Over nearly every part of the Omeo country we found 
kangaroo grass, in many parts high and thick, affording 
good feed. 
The ridges and slopes from the head of Dry Gully 
to Victoria Creek are all well grassed. The forest is 
wliite-gum, with Black Sally in the gullies. 
On all the southern slopes, from Dry Gully to Parslow’s, 
we observed stringy-bark and peppermint, with rather 
poor grass. There is also much low wattle scrub and 
bitter-leaf, or native hop. 
The northern slopes are not so steep as the southern 
slopes are, and they are not so deeply scored by the 
storm-waters. They are clothed with a thick sward of 
kangaroo grass. In many places we saw varieties of 
gum which we could not class. 
We diverged from our path in order to see Victoria 
Plain. We saw it with the afternoon sun on it. It is 
