Some additional notes: Richard Zacks mentions the "rolling greenery" between Horsham and Ballarat, but he does not mention the stop in Stalwell. On 4/18/21 3:19 PM, Scott Holmes wrote: > Some where in Australia is a region, described by Mark Twain in > Following The Equator, "The train was now exploring a beautiful hill > country, and went twisting in and out through lovely little green > valleys." > > I'm trying to determine just where this might be. One cannot count on > the narrative being chronological but it does appear that he traveled > through this region on the train ride from Melbourne to Adelaide or > from Adelaide to Horsham.