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ocean. A depressed Glacier Flora, imitating in some degree the bota- 

 nical features of the European and other Alps, covers scantily the icy 

 tops. 



The bearings from the summit of Mount Tambo, instituted on the 



17th of December, 1854, gave the position of Mount Hotham due W,, 

 of Mount La Trobe, W. 4° S, 



From Omeo I resumed my journey into the north-easterly systema 

 of our Alps, through a delightful subalpine country, opening into wide 

 valleys at the main sources of the Snowy Eiver, many of these valleys 

 well adapted and partially used for summer pastures. 



I ascended the most northern alpine hill of the Munyang Mountains 

 on the 1st of January, 1855, and traversed in the weeks subsequent 

 most of the princij)al elevations of these prodigious mountains, adding 

 also there again not inconsiderably to our herbarium. Here on very 



many places the waters of the Murray and the Snowy River are rising 

 in the closest proximity. 



Descending, in the latter part of January, along the Snowy River to 

 the lower country, I advanced as far easterly through the coast tract 

 as the boggy nature of the country permitted, and 1 devoted my atten- 

 tion here again to the Flora of the Palm-tree Country, to improve my 

 knowledge of the interesting plants discovered here previously in a 

 more advanced season. 



But the full botanical investigation of the south-eastern portion of 

 this Colony, which, under the mildest climate, abounds in subtropical 

 plants, can only be accomplished from the New South Wales frontier. 



Returning from the Snowy Eiver, I deemed it more promising to 

 prosecute my operations on the coast, along which I proceeded to Lake 

 King, Here I observed, amongst other rare and unknown phiuts, 

 some -fine trees of AcronycJiia, a genus known from Eastern Australia 

 and New Caledonia, remarkable for its splendid wood, and the aromatic 

 property by which the species are pervaded. 



A most severe illness frustrated my intention of ascending Mount 

 Bow Bow, a wild, rocky, isolated summit at the south-western slope 

 of the Australian Alps, hitherto unexplored, and perhaps the only lo- 

 cality from which additions may be expected of importance to our 



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