The Victorian naturalist . November, 1975 229. Burmongi, on the other side of whichhe found the Snowy River 70 yardsbroad and the party arrived andstopped at Gap Britannia. Details of the manuscript indicatethat Durom Burmongi was what wenow call Mount Bulla Bulla, a fewmiles north of McKillops Bridge, andGap Britannia was probably the deepvalley of the Snowy River, upstreamfrom the bridge. The above photo-graph illustrates valley and mountain. Lhotsky did not appreciate ourgum-trees, for one of the passages inhis book reads thus: In all the tract which I traversedthis time, there reigns a uni
The Victorian naturalist . November, 1975 229. Burmongi, on the other side of whichhe found the Snowy River 70 yardsbroad and the party arrived andstopped at Gap Britannia. Details of the manuscript indicatethat Durom Burmongi was what wenow call Mount Bulla Bulla, a fewmiles north of McKillops Bridge, andGap Britannia was probably the deepvalley of the Snowy River, upstreamfrom the bridge. The above photo-graph illustrates valley and mountain. Lhotsky did not appreciate ourgum-trees, for one of the passages inhis book reads thus: In all the tract which I traversedthis time, there reigns a uniformity inits forest trees, that banishes imagina-tion and scantifies experience; andalthough I saw new kinds of Eucalyp-tus in Byrons and Napoleons Valley,about Mount Didic and Pass Britannia,there is always the same mono-tonous ramification, the same simplecoriaceous leaves, the same unshowyflower ... However, he also admitted that thecypress-pines (which he called Cali-thris and evidently met with in theDeddick valley) did make some varia-
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