104 NOTES OF TRAVEL 
which grows freely on some of the pebbly creeks, and as freely 
on the crags which occassionally surmount precipitous hills. 
Numerous smaller plants, some of them of great beauty, grow 
through all this coast country. On some future occasion 
I may go more fully into this subject. I need scarcely refer 
to the quadrupeds, birds, or insects of these districts, since 
they are common to most of the Queensland coast country 
south of the tropics. 
In the foregoing notes, I have not attempted to give the 
distances from place to place. I have trusted solely to my 
memory in what I have described, but could not trust it as 
to distances ; moreover, bush roads are very often changed 
as the country becomes better known, and distances which 
might be correctly stated in respect to roads more than forty 
years ago, would be altogether misleading if appiled to the 
roads at the present time. All this country has changed 
wonderfully since 1861, for as the poet sings :— 
“All things must change 
To something new, to something strange ; 
Nothing that is can pause or stay. 
The moon will wax, the moon will wane, 
The mist and cloud will turn to rain, 
The rain to mist and eloud again, 
To-morrow be to-day.” 
