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flowers of which abound in honey, which our author found it easy to 

 extract by means of tlie slender tubular stems of gi'ass ; and a shrub- 

 by Aster, with toothed leaves, so profusely loaded with pure white 

 blossoms as to bend gracefully in all directions. We now quote a 

 passage that will give some idea of the denseness of the forests in this 

 island. 



" On an old road called the Lopham-road, a few miles from the Bay, we measured 

 some stringy-bark trees, taking their circumference at about 5 feet from the ground. 

 One of these, which was rather hollow at the bottom, and broken at the top, was 49 

 feet round; another that was solid, and supposed to be 200 feet high, was 41 feet 

 round ; and a third, supposed to be 250 feet high, was 55^ feet round. As this tree 

 spread much at the base, it would be nearly 70 feet in circumference at the surface of 

 the ground. My companions spoke to each other, when at the opposite side of this 

 tree to myself, and their voices sounded so distant that I concluded they had inadver- 

 tently left me, to see some other object, and immediately called to them. They, in 

 answer, remarked the distant sound of my voice, and asked if I were behind the tree ! 

 ^Vhen the road through this forest was forming, a man, who had only about 200 yards 

 to go, from one company of the work-people to another, lost himself: he called, and 

 was repeatedly answered ; but getting fuaber astray, his voice became more indistinct, 

 till it ceased to be heard, and he perished. The largest trees do not always carry up 

 their width in proportion to their height, but many that are mere spars are 200 feet high. 



" The following measurement and enumeration of trees growing on two separate 

 acres of ground in the Emu Bay forest, made by the late Henry Hellyer, the Surveyor 

 to the V. D. Land Company, may give some idea of its density. 



