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pretty dwarf acacias. As Mr. Kennedy and myself 

 were walking- first of the party^ looking- out for the best 

 path for the horses to travel in^ I fell with violence, 

 and unfortunatel}" broke Mr. Kennedy's mountain 

 barometer^ which I carried. I also bruised one of 

 my fing-ers very much^ by crushing- it with my g'un. 



Sept. nth and Sth, — We continued following* the 

 river during- its westward course, throug-h a very 

 mountainous country. On the hills I saw a very 

 handsome Bcmlihiia, a tree about twenty feet 

 hig'h, with spreading- branches covered with axillary 

 fascicles of red flowers, long- broad flat leg-umes, 

 pinnate leaves, leaflets oval, about one inch long-; 

 an Erythrina, with fine racemes of orang-e-coloured 

 flowers, with long- narrow keel, and broad vexillum, 

 leaves palmate^ and three to five lunate leaflets, 

 long*, round, painted legumes, red seeds ; also a rose- 

 coloured Brachycldton, with rather small flowers, a 

 deciduous tree of stunted habit^ about twenty feet 

 high. We also passed narrow belts of low sandy 

 loam, covered with Banksias, broad-leafed 3Iela- 

 leucaSy and the orang-e-coloured Grcvillca I have 

 before spoken of. On these flats we ag*ain met 

 with larg-e ant-hills, six to ten feet hig-h, and eig'ht 

 feet in circumference ; the land at the base was of a 

 reddish colour. 



Sept. 9th. — We had a fine view of the surrounding* 

 countr}^ from the top of a hig-h hill, in the midst of 

 a range over which we passed. To the west and 

 round to the south the country appeared to be fine 



