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gully convenient to niy encampment, where I procured a 

 quantity of Renealmia paniculata, specimens o( Xerotes mon- 

 tana, Celastrus elceagnoides, a shrub with lanceolate inucro- 

 nate leaves ; Asplenium Jlabelliforme, and Polypodium atten- 

 uatum. Stenocarpus saligmis grew very luxuriant in the 

 ravine which opened from the water-gully." 



In consequence of the illness of the horse that iiad had 

 the severe fall in the mountains, Mr Cunningham was de- 

 tained some days, and did not finally return to Paramatta 

 until the evening of the 10th. In the course of the month 

 of January 1824', a trip was undertaken to the vicinity of 

 Cathurst, for the purpose of collecting seeds that were at 

 that time ripe. Shortly after his return to Paramatta, the 

 French discovery-ship the Coquille, Captain Duperry, arriv- 

 ed at Port Jackson, and Mr Cunningham tendered to the 

 scientific gentlemen attached to that vessel, the advantages he 

 possessed of a long acquaintance with the country, for the 

 means of forwarding their various pursuits during their stay 

 in the colony, and he always spoke with great pleasure of 

 the acquaintance he thus formed with MM. Dumont D'Ur- 

 ville and Lesson, the first an officer (aiid a botanist), the 

 latter the naturalist of the expedition. 



At the latter end of March, Mr Cunningham started with 

 his people on a tour to the southward of the colony, through 

 the counties of Camden and Argyle; he also visited Lakes 

 George and Bathurst, the head waters of the Morrumbidgee, 

 Brisbane Downs (the Monaroo of the aborigines), Marley's 

 Plains and the Shoalhaven gullies. The tract of country 

 through which they travelled being of a generally good 

 grazing character, did not afford so much botanical novelty 

 as had been anticipated, but still some of the discoveries were 

 interesting, from the curious identity of vegetation in many 

 parts with that of the country in the vicinity, and to the 

 northward of Bathurst on the western side of the great 

 mountain range. A plant also of the south coast, discovered 

 at Port Philip in 1802, by Mr Brown, [Lomatia ilicifolia), 

 was also found in great profusion in the district of Argyle. 



