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into the dividing range. Got across (the Lynd) on the 12th, and on 

 to the Burdekin, a fine running stream ; hence rapidly and continuously 

 travelling, on an average, eight hours a day for six days in the week, 

 always resting on Sundays. Horses in excellent condition. Reached 

 the "Sutor;" crossed; on to the "Belyndo," and straight down the 

 " Mackenzie, 5 ' past " Peak Range," and there found tracks of white 

 men on trees, etc., and especially found a tree marked by Leichhardt 



L." This spot had long previously been searched, and no- 

 thing was now found but a number of bones of goats, which Leichhardt 

 was known to have had with him. ■ Next day came upon a plain co- 

 vered with cattle- and horse-tracks, and two days after (November 21) 

 on to the Dawson River, along which was a beaten track, evidently 

 near some station. Camped on the banks of the river, and soon after 

 were surprised by a mob of horses neighing up ip them. 



November 22. — Came to a dray-track, and soon after to a station, 

 Mr. O'Conner's, by whom the party was well received ; but they had 

 not been expected for some months to come. This journey was made 

 in five months and two days, whereas it took Leichhardt fifteen months 

 to accomplish the same distance. Remained the Sunday ; started on 

 Monday for the next station, Mr. Hay's, one of the largest of the 

 northern squatters, where we arrived the day of the date of this letter. 

 Now open road to Moreton Bay. 



To this was added, before posting the letter, a P.S. :— » December 4, 

 1856, River Burnett, Parkin's -Station, lat. 25° 40'. Steadily progress- 

 ing towards Brisbane ; passing from one station to another. Letter de- 

 spatched from Gayndak, post-town of the Burnett district. Reports of 

 the party having been in a very disabled condition have been circulated." 



few Notes relating to the Vegetation of Soi 



by Dr. W. Guyton Atherstone, of 



Will 

 W. Sliepstone, Weslej 



Graham's Town, South Africa, March 4th, 1856. 



I take advantage of one of my patients' (Rev 



small collection of plants from the neighbourhood of the great Lake 

 Ngami, and the rivers to the northward, collected for me by Mr. Joseph 

 M'Cabe, an enterprising traveller, who has penetrated further to he 



Livingston 



