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other native species the foliage resembles that of the English 
Fiddle-Dock. Of this pernicious genus of weeds, several 
foreign individuals are now naturalized here. 
P.S.— From the aspect of the Lakes Dalarn and Maradine, 
and of the plants inhabiting their vicinity, among which I 
noticed several, as the Red and Yellow Leschenaultia, which 
are confined to the coast, I conclude that these lakes are 
near the sea, and that the Darling range of hills, hitherto 
supposed to terminate in Morseby's Flat-topped range, do 
not extend so far to the north as these lakes, which cannot 
be more than one hundred miles north of Freemantle. Some 
natives, whom my sons saw near this piece of water, informed 
them that by travelling westerly, the sea-shore would be 
reached long before sunset. I do not know, at this moment, 
how the coast trends to the north of Freemantle. Our 
course, by compass, had been from Hawthornden several 
points to the west of north, and Hawthornden lies from 
Perth north-east by north, nearly fifty railes. 
Jas. DRUMMOND. _ 
Hawthornden, Farm, Toodjay Valley. 
Oct, 1842. 
A month ago I wrote to you a long letter, containing a 
kind of Journal of an Excursion I had made to the north, in 
company with Mr. Gilbert. Since that time, I have taken 
another journey, of about fifty miles, in an easterly direction, 
and have put up a box, containing one hundred and thirty 
species of plants, to be forwarded by the first ship for Eng- 
land: but I fear the despatch of it must be deferred till I 
return from an expedition on which I am going, accom- 
panied by Mr. Gilbert, and which will take me towards King 
George’s Sound, and perhaps keep me absent till near the 
beginning of next March. The box is chiefly filled with the 
produce of what I saw during my two last journeys. - No. 9, 
is that remarkable pear-shaped Hakea figured in your Icones 
Plantarum, Tas. CDXXXIII, in flower. It was plentiful 
