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the fruit is eaten on all occasions ; it has, when roasted, the 

 flavour of a Spanish chestnut, and I have been assured by 

 Europaeans who have subsisted on it exclusively for two days, 

 that no other unpleasant effect was the result than a slight 

 pain in the bowels, and that only when it was eaten raw. 



The country intervening between Breakfast Creek and 

 Brisbane Town is hilly, the higher grounds stony, but the 

 vallies fertile, and abounding in water. We reached the town 

 again at six o'clock. 



July bth. — This day was appropriated to the examination 

 of a valley N. E. from Brisbane Town, by which this 

 settlement is at present supplied with water. In this spot, 

 which I found most fertile, was shown to me an extraordinary 

 Cemetery, if it may be so termed, of the aboriginal natives. 

 It consisted of the hollow trunk of a dead Eucalyptus, in 

 which were deposited human bones of all ages, consisting of 

 leg, thigh, and arm bones, vertebrae, and some fragments of 

 crania, all mingled together. I was informed that many of 

 the skulls had been previously carried away by scientific 

 persons. The hills are covered with nodules of quartz: their 

 timber consisting of Eucalyptus and Casuarina. 



July 6th. — At ten o'clock I proceeded with Captain Logan 

 and Mr. Cunningham to the southern extremity of Glen- 

 moriston's Range. 



The country which lies between Brisbane Town and the 

 base of this range, is, to the north of the river, hilly, sterile, 

 and devoid of interest. On ascending the high ground, the 

 soil and grass improve, and continue to do so till the very 

 summit of the range, which is clothed with Tristania rohusta, 

 Eucalyptus, and the Forest Oak, {Casuarina torulosa :) the 

 native Cherry {Exocarpus cupressiformis,) also abounds here. 

 On the summit was observed a remarkable tree of the Urtica 

 family, which appears to be a new genus. In habit it resembles 

 a tall Weeping Willow, * the fruit hanging in pendulous 



* GYROSTEMON ATTENUATUM. 



DiCECiA PoLYANDRiA. Nat. Ord. Urtice^? 



Gen. Chab. Flares dioici. Masc. Perianthium monophyllura, lobatum inta- 



