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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 unfortunately 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. 7th 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 Baukinia, 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 leg-umes, red seeds ; also a rose- 

 coloured Brachjckitoiij with rather small flowers, a 

 deciduous tree of stunted habit, about twenty feet 

 hig-h. We also passed narrow belts of low sandy 

 loam, covered with Bmiksias, broad-leafed 31ela- 

 leucaSy and the orang-e-coloured Grevillca 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. dth. — We had a fine view of the surrounding- 

 country from the top of a hig-h hill, in the midst of 

 a rang-e over which we passed. To the west and 

 round to the south the country nppeared to be fine 



