THE BULLER TRACK.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 456, 23 January 1869, Page 2

THE BULLER TRACK.

(To the Editor of the Westport Tines.) Sir, —In you last issue, giving an account of a correspondent's letter, you state in your local news that the writer is evidently no bushman. I am a bushman, and a good one too. I may tell you that I was one of the pioneers of Ballarat in 1851, and ono of the first that crossed the country to Forest Creek in the same year. I have also travelled through the Australian Alps, from Adelong, N.S.W.,

o the Snowy Mountains, Victoria, also rom Beechwortb to the Crooked River, icross the top of Sugar Loaf, the nghest mountain but one in the Aus;ralias. To go over this mountain you nse 7000 feet in twelve miles, and you sross M'Millan's Plain, GOOO feet high from Crookod River. I have travelled to Wood's Point, 180 miles through the Alps, and from Wood's Point to Donnelly's Creek. These points are the boundaries of the Alps. By this you inav think I know something about the bush —twice over and between Melbourne and Sydney not by rail. In my capacity of mining manager I have cut many side lines in the mountains in the districts I have named, where the foot of man never trod before. I also ran the express from Crooked River to Bulitown, and five or six more places, all in the Alps, and this express was done by " shanks' pony." The reason I ask you to insert' this is that I want your readers :o understand that I write what I do Know something about, and that in jaying that the road to the Blackwater is bad I am not saying what is not true. Ln conclusion, I may say that I was the best walker in this mountainous country with the exception of a man known to all Wood's Point people, and whose name was Loekey M'Lean. Thanking you for the insertion of this, I am, yours &c, A Bushman of Seventeen Teaks' Experience.