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progress^ owing- to the g-reat labour of clearing', and 

 the numerous steep ascents we met with. We 

 fortunately found water in a low place, and with 

 difficulty lig-hted a fire, everything- being- saturated 

 with rain. We then laid down and endeavoured to 

 sleep, but were unable to do so from the number of 

 small leeches which attacked us. I was oblig-ed to 

 g-et up several times in the nig-ht, and in the 

 morning- I found myself covered with blood. 



Ati//. dth. — We started at daylig-ht, althoug'h it 

 was raining-, and continued to do so all day ; about 

 six o'clock in the evening- we reached a small river, 

 running- rapidly over rocks, and deep in some places. 

 Its course was north-easterly, but it turned north, a 

 little below where we first came upon it. We 

 camped by the side of it, it being- too late to cross, 

 althoug'h there was open forest g-round on the other 

 side. The open g-round on the coast side of the 

 rang-e was considerably lower than that on the other, 

 the hig-hest part of our track being-, according- to 

 Mr. Kennedy's barometrical observations, upwards of 

 two thousand feet above the level of the sea. The 

 soil was a strong- loam of a dark colour, owing- to 

 the admixture of a great deal of decomposed veg-e- 

 table matter ; rock projected in many places, and in 

 those parts where the rocks were near the surface, 

 Callitris (cypress pine) g-rew. In the deeper soil 

 were larg-e trees of the g-enera Casfanospenmim, 

 LopJwsteinonj and Cedrela, mingled A^ith Aclvras 

 Avstralis, Calamus (climbing palm), SeaforfJiia, 



