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observed many beautiful Orchideous plants, amongst them 

 Caladenia carnea and alba. 



The view from south-east to north-west was extensive and 

 very grand, presenting an immense, thinly wooded plain, 

 whose suj'face was gently undulated, and clothed with 

 luxuriant ffrass. 



Flinders' Peak is seen to the westward, surrounded with 

 numerous smaller ones. To the south and eastward arise a 

 distant range of mountains, (since named Mount Lindsay,) 

 with very lofty peaks, one of which, (ascertained to be 

 Mount Hooker,) resembling a pigeon-house in form, is supposed 

 to belong to the lateral branches of Mount Warning Ranges. 

 To the south-west of this Peak appears the Dividing Range, 

 with the gap, or pass, observed by Mr. Cunningham, in 1827, 

 near Gen. Darling's Downs, under which we remarked some 

 extensive flats, perfectly clear of wood. In the centre of 

 the plain rises a remarkable and detached table hill. 



To the north, the eye extends over a tract of lofty and 

 forest-covered hills, interspersed with extensive districts of 

 Araucaria, (the Moreton Bay Pine,) of which the sombre 

 green colour forms a striking contrast to the brownish hue of 

 the Gum Trees, [Eucalypti.) 



The view easterly is most commanding. It embraces 

 Moreton Island and Bay, Stradbroke Island, the Glass 

 Houses, with the meanderings of the Brisbane River, and 

 the settlements about the town. Immediately at the foot of 

 the range, the Oxley, or Canoe Creek, is seen winding 

 through a tract of fine country. 



Jidy 1th. — Sunday. 



July 8th. — Confined by sickness. 



Jidy 9th. — Recovering ; but unable to make any exertion. 



Desfontaines. Whilst dissectiug the flowers and fruit, they were fuund to dif- 

 fuse a most powerful smell, resembling that of Ether. 



Tab. LIU. Fiff. I, Branch with female flowers and fruit : — 7iat. size. Fig. 

 2, Vertical section of a fruit. Fig. 3, One of the capsules cut open verti- 

 cally, with one perfect and one abortive seed. Fig, 4, Seed: — more or lest 

 magnified, — W. J, H. 



