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largest tributaries of the Huon. 
Although Mt. Mueller is one of the most attractive 
and important Mountains in Tasmania its height has never 
been definitely fixed but is probably 4,000 feet- A high 
ridge of rugged quartzite rocks - the Needles runs North¬ 
ward- This is broken by two saddles with two interest¬ 
ing mountains - Tim Shea and Wherrett's Look Out between 
them- The track to the Florentine and Adamsfield and 
the old Great Western Railway survey crosses here and the 
ridge terminates in the Mt. Field ranges, the southern 
peak of which Tyenna Peak overlooks Kallista. 
Another spur runs south eastward and separates the 
Russell Falls and Styx Volleys by the Maydenna Range about 
3,000 feet high immediately South of Kallista* A third 
spur runs out to Mt. Anne and Mt. Vfedge. The slopes of 
Mt. Mueller are covered with virgin forest and a pretty 
lake nestles near the top*. The track to Port Davey 
crosses one shoulder at 1,900 feet. 
Kallista is in real west coast country and is the 
nearest spot to Hobart where wild forest and mountain 
scenery is to be found. The railway siding is right 
against the bush. Behind is a bare ridge, Pine Hill, 
covered with button grass and in November, ablaze with 
blandfordia. The last house is some two miles nearer 
Hobart. Once there was a clearing a mile or so further 
in known as Mayne’s, but this was destroyed in the great 
bush fires of 1934. Within a mile of kallista railway 
siding you can get into the real Tasmanian hush with 
horizontal, beech and laurel predominating. Some timber 
tracks penetrate this Rarest for a few miles, but it is 
quite impossible to venture off these tracks. The old 
track to Port Davey leaves civilization here and provides 
an interesting and easy walk. 
Four miles nearer Hobart is the settlement of Junee, 
the last outpost of civilization in this direction. There 
are vast beds of limestone here extending up the Field 
ranges and the little Junee river emerges from a romantic 
cave. Its water is renowned for its coldness and absol¬ 
ute regularity of the temperature and flow at all seasons. 
From Junee the Adamsfield track winds 22 miles through 
the forests and across the ranges to the centre of the 
