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roots of Caladium glycijrrhizon afford the chief aliment of the 

 aborigines. The Chestnut Trees are of rapid growth, and 

 yield a most grateful shade. 



Aug. 2d. — A hoar frost added to the chilliness of the 

 morning, and the quicksilver, at eight o'clock, stood at 40°. 

 Two miles from our encampment, the Logan receives a 

 rivulet from the north, and suddenly alters its westerly to a 

 southward course. One mile farther, on the accession of 

 the Benvie stream, it changes back again to the westward, 

 and, sweeping round the base of Mount Clanmorris, passes 

 through a magnificent valley, which, to save distance, we left 

 on our right, the mountain bearing from us west by north. 

 Through hilly forests, we entered a valley of the richest and 

 most varied character, from which Mount Lindsay rises with 

 a grandeur that baffles all description. Downwards from its 

 summit, which is about 5500 feet above the valley, it presents 

 a perpendicular front of rock at least 2000 feet high, and the 

 whole springs, as it were, from a base-line of fine flat land, 

 stretching for more than five miles, uninterruptedly, between 

 Mount Clanmorris and M'Pherson's Range. 



We halted on the banks of the Logan at two o'clock, 

 having accomplished eight miles to-day. An hour after, the 

 Captain and I ascended a circular range of hills which seemed 

 to gird the base of the mountain, in the hope of finding a 

 path by which it might be possible to climb it. This range 

 is composed of argillaceous trap, and I discovered on its 

 summit a new species of Acacia, with uniform leaves. We 

 retrained our tent in the afternoon, havino^ met with a tribe 

 of natives in the way, who, as usual, took to their heels on 

 our approach. 



Aug. 3d. — Morning cold and frosty. At day-break, Capt. 

 Logan, Mr. Cunningham, two men, and I began the ascent 

 of the mountain. On attaining the summit of the ridge, 

 over the lower part of which, as I mentioned, we had passed 

 yesterday, we found that it conducted to the centre of the 

 mountain's northern front, at an elevation, assuredly, of 2000 

 feet from the Logan, which flows at its base. Here that front 

 presents a really terrific aprearance, bising a perpendicular 



