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progTess^ owing- to the gTeat 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 fi'om 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 

 moniing- I found myself covered with blood. 



Aug. ^th. — ^We started at daylight, 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-easterlv, 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 ground 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 vege- 

 table matter ; rock projected in many places, and in 

 those parts where the rocks were near the surfiice, 

 Callitris (c^^press pine) g-rew. In the deeper soil 

 were large trees of the g-enera Castanospenmim, 

 LopJiostemon, and Cechria, ming-led ^\ith Achras 

 Anstralis^ Calamus (climbing- palm), Scaforthiay 



