Notes of an excursion to Cummings's Head and the falls of the Meander, on the western mountains, Tasmania

Abstract

Accompauied by a friend and two servants I started on the morning of May lOth, 1848, for an excursion to Cummings's Head, a spur of the Western Mountains near Cheshunt, with the intention of visiting the falls of the Meander River, which I had seen before in the summer, when a mere silvery thread of water was all of them that was visible. We hoped at this season to find a large stream flowing over the dark basaltic rocks of the mountain side. Our provisions consisted of 41b. of cold meat, 12lb. of bread, 3lb. of rice, 5lb, of sugar, and 3/4 lb. of tea; and we took with us an opossum-skin rug, a pair of blankets, and a light tent weighing 33/4lb.—besides the usual accompaniments of matches, knives, tomahawk, &c.