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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 107 
Biographical Sketch of the late ALLAN CuNNINGHAM, Ese. 
F.L.S. M.R.G.S. &c. Se, by Ropert Hewarp, Esa. 
F.L.S. 
(In the First Series of this Journal, vol. iv. pp. 231-320, 
we traced the life of this zealous naturalist to the period of 
his expedition north of Liverpool Plains, in 1827; we now 
proceed to narrate the continuance of his journeying.) 
In the month of June, 1828, Mr. Cunningham embarked 
for another visit to Moreton Bay. The voyage was a very 
boisterous one, and a horse that he was taking with him, 
was thrown down by a lurch of the vessel, and so severely 
injured, that it died the next day. On their passage, 
they touched at Port Macquarie, and landed at Bris- 
bane Town on the 1st of J uly. Mr. Fraser, the colonial 
botanist, accompanied Mr. Cunningham on this trip. An 
expedition was, shortly after their arrival, undertaken to 
Mount Lindsay, whose elevation is 5,700 feet, and the gran- 
deur of the scenery in its immediate vicinity, appears to have 
afforded much gratification to all the party. On their return 
route, Mr. Cunningham and his people struck off for the 
Limestone Station, on Bremer River, while Captain Logan 
and Mr. Fraser returned direct to Brisbane Town. After 
giving his cattle a short rest, Mr. Cunningham started again, 
with the intention of making the Gap, in the dividing range, 
that he had found last year, where his journey then terminated, 
and thus to connect his discoveries. After some difficult 
travelling, he was fortunate, on the 25th of August, in finding 
a route, that with trifling labour, may render the passage 
through the mountains perfectly accessible for all the pur- 
poses of the agriculturist, who, in future days, will doubtless 
become the denizen of the vast pastoral country to the west- 
ward. Thus, a second time, discovering in this singularly 
inaccessible country, an outlet to rich and fertile lands, which 
for ages will employ tbe energies and taients of the indus- 
trious farmers of New South Wales. 
In a walk towards a ridge on which grew Araucaria Cun- 
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