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where, for about four hundred yards wide, in a direction from 
north-west to south-east, every tree in the forest had been 
levelled. The kind of lane, thus formed in the forest, was two 
hundred yards long, and not a tree was left standing, except 
a few bare trunks. The storm, after traversing the before- 
mentioned narrow belt of land, appears to have crossed the 
Estuary, there about two miles broad, and struck its eastern 
shore, about a mile from the town of Australind, laying 
prostrate every tree in its course for about a similar width of 
space, then ascending the hills and descending into the val- 
leys, right over the Collie and Preston Rivers; but how far 
it might proceed into the interior, is unknown. In all my 
travels, I have never witnessed any thing like the effects 
of this storm, nor heard or read of aught similar. It 
could not have been a tornado or whirlwind, because the 
trees were levelled flat all one way. At Perth, the night 
between the 17th and 18th of June was excessively tempes- 
tuous, the hailstones having broken several hundreds of panes 
of glass. 3 
Two or three days after my return from the Vasse to 
Australind, I was so fortunate as to meet with an oppo’ 
tunity of forwarding all my specimens as far as the Murray 
in Mr. Singleton’s cart, and accompanying the driver myself 
I reached this gentleman’s residence, after a four days’ jout- 
ney; which was as pleasant as can be expected in the bush, 
at this season of the year. Mr. Singleton is the Government- 
Resident of the Murray District, and the day after my arrival 
at his house I proceeded to examine the land in his endo- 
sure, where many horses have died, no less than ninó —— 
within the last year. Mr. S. was firmly persuaded that this — 
mortality was attributable to some plant, which the animals Y 
had eaten among the grass, on its first springing up after the : 
rains. He had carefully examined, after death, the bodies 
of the horses, and had found that they invariably perished * 
from inflammation in the kidneys and neck of the bladder, — 
producing stranguary, and of course intolerable suffering: — 
My own opinion is that the Ranunculus Coloneus of Hugel 5 — 
