THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
JANUARY, 1849. 
Art. XXXIII. Some account of the country lying between Lake 
St. Clair and Macquarie Harbour. By Mr. J. E. Caldek, 
Government Surveyor. Communicated by Lieut. Kay, R. N, 
In November, 1840, I left Hobart, accompanied by seven men, 
for the purpose of examining the tract of country lying between 
Lake St. Clair and Macquarie Harbour, and arrived at Marl¬ 
borough on the 2nd December. At this site of a future township 
all further trace of a road to the westward ceases, (I speak of 
1840), and I found it necessary, before moving my provisions 
forward to the lake, to mark and clear a track for this purpose. 
I reached St. Clair on the 8th December. 
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Lake St. Clair,* the source of the Derwent river, is a beautiful 
sheet of water; perhaps the finest in the island. It is nearly 
encompassed by high basaltic mountains; and as these dip 
* First visited by the party under Mr. Surveyor General Frankland, in 1835. I have lost 
the notes I kept during tnc journey with him ; so cannot fix the precise date of the visit, but 
it was between the 10th and 15th February. The Lake had been seen before by Mr. 8 bar land, 
from a distant hill. 
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