THE 
THK JOURNAL OF THE 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists’ Club 
Vol. II. APRIL, 19T1. No. 4. 
On the Discovery of a Oototberium in Casmania. 
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By H. IT. Scott & K. M. Hakrisson. 
Dotes upon the Cocaltty of the Discovery. 
By K. M. HARRISSON 
1MOWARI) the far north-west of Tasmania, within twenty-five miles of 
~ Cape Grim, is the prosperous little township of Smithton, situated 
three miles from the waters of Bass Strait on the banks of a small 
stream, named the Duck River, some eighty or ninety years ago, by 
Henry Hellyer, the pioneer surveyor and explorer of that point of the 
island. 
Perhaps the most consistent feature of this part of the coast as 
viewed either from sea, or from the main roads which are close to the 
sea, is the long stretch of low foreshore extending from the high cliffs 
of Cape Grim to the isolated basaltic hills of the Circular Head peninsula 
with the striking ‘nut’ rising sheer from the sea to a height of over 
450 feet. 
