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which proves Jussieu to possess immense botanical knowledge, together 
with as penetrating and clear a judgment as had appertained to his 
illustrious forefathers, Antoine-Laurent and Bernard de Jussieu, them- 
selves. 
(Lo be continued.) 
Report of a Journey or Discovery into the Interior of WESTERN 
AUSTRALIA, between 8th September, 1848, and 3rd February, 1849 ; 
by J. S. Roz, Ese., Surveyor-General. 
(Continued from vol. vi. p. 380.) 
The sun being now very low, and the dreary “sand patch” yet to 
be traversed, we wended our way slowly onwards amongst its living 
hillocks, remarking on the sad spectacle we had just witnessed, having 
in all probability been occasioned chiefly by the want of water, which 
was anywhere to be had in abundance, within a stone’s throw, by 
scratching a small hole in the sand. This presence of fresh water in 
the large sand-drifts of the sea-coast has often been observed by tra- 
vellers, but never satisfactorily accounted for; nor can I assign for it 
any cause more rational or probable than its being the drainage of the 
back country through those caverns and hollow ways which, in lime- 
stone countries, so much abound. 
Passing through much good grass, amongst Peppermint-trees and 
short steep sand-hills, we reached our camp before it was quite dark, 
and I observed the latitude of the clump of large Yeit-trees in which 
it was situated to be 34° 24’ 29" S.; three miniature woods of the 
same description extending in a line from it to the N.N.W., about a 
mile apart. Smiler was somewhat better, but still giving cause for un- 
easiness about him. 
Next day we proceeded westward, along a beaten track of the na- 
tives, behind the sea-coast hills, where the land lay low, open, and for — 
several miles nearly level, with small clumps of Yeit-trees, and rushy 
lagoons. 
At the end of ten miles we descended the steep shore of the estuary 
which receives the Pallinup River, and crossing its dry sand-bar, which - 
was only fifty or sixty yards across, encamped two miles up its southern — 
shore, where we found abundance of excellent grass for our — and e 
tolerable water, by digging near the shore of the estuary. The latter 
