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CHAPTER V. 



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

 Blackheath — 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. 



On the following morning, about seven a.m., 

 after a good night's repose and an excellent 

 breakfast, we resumed our journey ; the air was 

 keen, but not so piercing as on the previous 



