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feet hig-h^ the straight trunks rising- twenty or thirty 

 feet from the g-round to the branches^ being- covered 

 with blossoms^ with which not a leaf ming-led. 

 There were ripe and unripe fruit ming-led with the 

 blossoms, the scent of the latter being- delig-htful, 

 spreading- perfume over a g-reat distance around j I 

 had frequently noticed the frag-rance of these blos- 

 soms while passing- throug-h the scrub, but could 

 not before make out from whence it arose. It resem- 

 bles the scent of a ripe pine-apple, but is much more 

 powerful. There are not many of these trees to be 

 found, and those only in the scrub, in a stiff loamy 

 soil. The small animals eat the fruit, and I tasted 

 some, but it was not so g'ood as the rose-apple ; ^\e 

 called it the white-apple. It is a species of Migeriia. 



A short distance to the south-west of our camp, 

 is a rang'e of round hills, of moderate heig-ht, 

 covered with g-rass, and thinly timbered with box 

 and other species of eucah'ptus, resembling- the 

 ii'on-bark. These hills are composed of hug-e blocks 

 of coarse g-ranite, A^dth a stiff soil, and appear to 

 stretch a lono* distance to the west. 



tTuIy Isf.— Mr. Kennedy returned this morning", 

 having- explored the country for about forty miles, 

 over which he thought we might travel safety. 

 There being plenty of grass however at the camp, 

 and the men no better, he determined to defer our 

 advance till Monday. 



July 2nd. — Being Sunday, prayers were read at 

 eleven o'clock. 



