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Liverpool, and the pages of the Botanical Magazine will 

 testify how successful he has been in discovering new plants. 

 The dried specimens from this part of New Holland, in 

 particular, which he has communicated to me, are both 

 numerous and valuable, and the future pages of this work 

 will, I trust, contain the figures and descriptions of many of 

 them. Mr. Allan Cunningham, the able botanist attached 

 to the Royal Gardens of Kew, was engaged at the same time, 

 and with the same object, in exploring the vegetable riches of 

 this novel country; and their united collections, whenever 

 they shall be published, will add greatly to our knowledge 

 of the botany of Australia. — JV. J. H. 



June SOth, 1828. — Arrived at Amity Point, Moreton Bay, 

 in the ship Lucy Ann, and cast anchor in Rainbow Reach, 

 after a passage of twenty-three days from Port-Jackson. 



Jidi/ 1st. — At seven o'clock in the morning, proceeded 

 across Moreton Bay, in company with Mr. Allan Cunning- 

 ham, the Government Botanist, and entered the Brisbane 

 River at ten o'clock, where we landed for an hour and re- 

 freshed the men, and then reached Brisbane Town at three 

 o'clock. 



The banks of this river, until arriving at the islands, are 

 clothed with Mangroves, Casuarince, and Banksia Compar, 

 entwined with many thick climbers, and containing several 

 interesting plants. Above the islands, the Casuarina disap- 

 pears, and is succeeded by Gum Trees, {Eucalypti,) and exten- 

 sive brushwoods, the latter exhibiting a profusion of Yelloiv 

 Wood, {Oxleija xanthoxijla,*) and Tulip Wood, a few straggling 

 AraucaricB, Flindersia australis, and many other interesting 

 timber trees, together with a vast variety of shrubs. The 

 hills that rise behind the copses are open and stony, tolerably 

 covered with grass, and with a few scattered Gum Trees. 



On approaching Brisbane Town, the banks of the river 

 become more elevated and rocky. The north side is formed 



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