CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



Our journey resumed — The new road — Road-side flowers — 

 Blackhe?th — The pass through Mount Vittoria — ^Talent 

 and perseverance of Major Mitchell, the surveyor-general 

 — Appearance of an iron gang — Leave the Blue Mountain 

 range — Arrive at Collet's Inn — Resume our journey to- 

 wards Dabee — New line of road — Aspect of the country — 

 Arrival at Mr. Walker's farm — Residence of Mr. Dal- 

 hunty — Huge mounds of clay — Blackman's Crown — Gum- 

 trees — Bush travelling — Encamp for the night — Caution 

 to travellers — Cherry-tree Hill — A deserted station — 

 Encampment of Aborigines — The musk duck — Produce 

 of Mr. Cox's dairy-farm — Mount Brace — Infanticide — 

 Custom of native women relative to their dead offspring — 

 Native practice of midwifery — Animal called the Cola — 

 Belief in the doctrine of metempsychosis . . 104 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cross the country to Goulburn Plains — A road-gang 

 stockade — Splendid view — The old Bathurst road — Sid- 

 mouth valley — Brisbane valley — Squash field — Bolam 

 Creek — Turril, turril — Gum resin — Swampy country- 

 Mr. Cowper's farm— Anecdotes— Distant view of Goul- 

 burn Plains — Mr. Bradley's estate — Cross the plains- 

 Hospitable reception at Cardross— The Manna tree— . 

 Failure in rearing the tulip tree . . . .132 



