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It is our duty to recommend that no time be lost in 
instituting a series of meteorological observations in Gipps- 
land. Able and willing observers can be found in all the 
towns and settlements: and, with a little zeal at the seat 
of government, the work would proceed rapidly, and 
many of the representations which might deter settlers 
from occupying the higher lands, would, we are convinced, 
be proved to be untrustworthy or exaggerated. 
The route pursued by us may be thus briefly sketched : — 
We left Melbourne at 8 a.m. on Thursday the 29th 
January, and passing through Oakleigh, Dandenong, 
Berwick, Pakenliam, and Buneep, arrived at Shady Creek 
on the evening of the same day. 
At 6 a.m. on the 30th January we started from 
Shady Creek on our way to Sale, following the main 
road and visiting Westbury, Morwell, Traralgon, and 
llosedale. 
Throughout this part of the journey the scenery was 
in general tame and rather uninteresting. From Tra¬ 
ralgon, however, we had a view of the Baw-baw Range, 
which is indeed a splendid feature in the landscape. It 
was not more than twenty-eight miles from us, but the 
smoke of bush-fires and the state of the atmosphere 
gave it the appearance of being far more distant, and con¬ 
sequently to our view, from the station we occupied, loftier 
than it is. Its height has not been measured, but we 
should suppose it is not less than 4500 feet above the 
level of the sea. 
We reached Sale at 6 p.m. on the same day. 
During Saturday the 31st January we examined some 
of the more interesting features in the vicinity of Sale ; 
and at 6.30 a.m. on Sunday the 1st February we went 
on board the s.s. Avon , which conveyed us to Bairnsdale. 
