REPORT. 
TO THE HONORABLE J. J. CASEY, M.P., MINISTER OF LANDS 
AND AGRICULTURE, ETC., ETC., ETC. 
Melbourne, lOtli February 1874. 
Sir, 
Ill obedience to your instructions we submit tbe results 
of tbe observations made by us when we bad tbe honor 
to accompany His Excellency Sir George Bowen, tbe 
Governor of tbe Colony, and yourself in your tour through 
Gippsland. In order to a proper understanding of tbe 
statements which follow, it is necessary to give a brief 
description of this part of tbe colony. 
Gippsland extends from longitude 145° 50' on tbe west 
to longitude 150° on tbe east. It is bounded on tbe west 
by tbe eastern boundaries of tbe counties of Evelyn and 
Morniugton ; on tbe north and north-west by tbe Great 
Dividing Range ; on tbe north-east by a line from Forest 
Hill to Cape Howe, dividing Victoria from New South 
Wales ; and on tbe south-east and south by tbe sea. 
Tbe area of tbe tract is 13,898 square miles, or 
8,894,720 acres. It may be regarded as bounded on tbe 
north-west and west by tbe Cordillera, and on tbe south¬ 
east by tbe sea. 
Its extreme length from west to east is two hundred 
and fifty miles, and its mean breadth about eighty miles. 
Excepting tbe La Trobe, which runs from west to east, 
all tbe great rivers have excavated deep valleys at right- 
angles to the coast-line. These rivers have their sources 
in mountains and plateaux, which, over the greater part, 
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