reserve. The animals and birds allow you to get very close to them, and although the rabbits scurry on their way if you stumble on them, the wallaby family and the magpie family are so tame that they will feed out of your hand. The scenery in the Blue Mountains is note- worthy for its peculiar diagonal properties. There are grand vistas which are obtainable from a series of high promontories looking down on the sides of different mountains. It is thus possible to see the light brown line of the road from an angular point of view winding off into delicate traceries over the horizon. In the afternoon I paid my visit and first respects to the Orient Cave. The Orient Cave is suppos- ed to be the most colorful of all the Jenolan Caves, although not necessarily the most wonderful to see. It takes about an hour to inspect under the vigilance of a guide, and includes in its subterranean catacombs three chambers known as The Egyptian Chamber, The Indian Chamber, and The Persian Chamber. These chambers are endowed with shawls, filigrees, minarets, stalactites, and stalagmites, which have been coloured by the various minerals in the surrounding sedimentations. The iron, lead, calcium, etc., have indeed distributed themselves with an aesthetic second sense and produced an uncanny collection of natural art. In this cave were such famous Jenolan land- marks as the lion's tail, the underground river, Portia's jewels, and other phenomena in which the crystals had