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From the mouth of the La Trobe to the mouth of the 
Avon the distance across the lake is six miles. The 
outline of a low scrub-covered shore, and the still, rather 
muddy waters of the lake offered no subjects for investi¬ 
gation ; the distance was hid from us by haze, and it was 
with a feeling of satisfaction that we entered the mouth of 
the Avon. 
Following the course of this river for nearly three 
miles, through waters bright and clear, a contrast to the 
waters of the lake, we landed on the left side of the river, 
on a low bank, and proceeded to the Aboriginal Station. 
Here we found good land. On the south-west lay the 
Clyde Bank morass, as yet unimproved for all useful 
purposes. This tract, about 5120 acres in extent, is, like 
the morasses bordering on the La Trobe, still in the posses¬ 
sion of the Crown. 
Returning to the mouth of the Avon, we made a 
straight course for nine miles to Maclennan’s Straits. On 
the northern shores of the lake we saw but low scrub and 
an uninteresting outline, and on the south side, dimly, a 
low fringe of tea-tree. Maclennan’s Straits are about six 
miles in length, and in breadth three chains. Large tea- 
trees and liglitwoods stand close down to the water, their 
rich green foliage overhanging it, and at each bend 
making pictures so full of delicacy and beauty that we 
regretted each one as it was passed only to wonder the 
more at the rare excellence of the coloring of those that 
succeeded it. The grace of outline and the contrast of 
colors in the foliage bordering these straits, the altered 
forms of the shrubs, and the softened colors in those parts 
where the waters x-eflected the foliage, stnick each observer 
with astonishment and admiration. 
