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small deep ravines, cropped out the shales, in all that interesting variety 

 we had observed on the Phillips 5 and their corresponding appearance 

 tended more than ever to confirm the opinion we had formed, that we 

 had been upon a bed of coal in the latter locality, and that it would 

 have appeared in view had not the river been set running by the rains 

 of the previous night. 



{To he continued,) 



Extract of a Letter from Dr, Harvey, dated Cape Riche^ West Australia, 



March 12, 1854. 



[We have again the satisfaction of hearing from our eminent Algo- 

 logist, and we are sure the following extract will interest our readers. 



Ed .] 



"I am glad you like the Fanvoorstia , etc., and that they will be 

 honoured with a figure. It will be long, I fear, before I have anything 

 half so pretty to send from this coast. I came here about ten days 

 ago, to spend a few weeks at Mr. Cheyne's farm, and explore the neigh- 

 bourhood; and I must needs stay, for want of conveyance, till the be- 

 ginning of next month, when I return to the Sound, and take the ' May' 

 steamer for Adelaide. At any other season I should find this a good 

 station for land-plants, but now they are mostly out of flower. Tou 



will 



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best things. I hope the few seeds enclosed may be worth sowing, 

 wish particularly that Symphiomyrtus Lehmanni (of Preiss. PI.) may 

 grow ; it is a very remarkable shrub, with the foliage of Eucalyptus, 

 but very different inflorescence. Tou must have it from Drummond ; 

 it will fill a tub ; open air in summer, and mere protection in winter. 

 It grows here on hUl-sides near the sea. EaJcea crassifolia is chiefly 

 remarkable for the size of its wooden fruit, which is as large as a peach, 

 and like it in form, and the shrub looks very funny when stuck over 

 with a hundred such fruits, on its naked lower branches, the upper ones 

 only being leafy. I send a few seeds of Kennedya nigrkans, on chance 

 of your caring to raise it ; it is a rai-e plant in the colony, though 

 common here on bushes by the sea-shore. Eucalyptus pleurocarpa has 

 very glaucous foliage, and is a handsome shrub. E. Treimana is not 



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