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being a general peculiarity of the trees of the 

 country, excites the attention of the stranger. 

 Our road led through a broken but picturesque 

 country, thinly timbered, and appeared good pas- 

 ture land. We crossed a small river, called the 

 Bingham, the country improving very much as 

 we proceeded, abounding in beautiful park 

 scenery, and the distant hills, rising one above 

 the other, both thinly, and, in some situations, 

 densely wooded, was an agreeable change to the 

 uninteresting sameness of the country through 

 which we had, for the most part, journeyed. 



The species of Eucalyptus, termed "Box Tree," 

 by the colonists, was most abundant : it has a 

 rough, scaly bark, differing in that particular from 

 most of the other species or varieties of the same 

 genus. On the elevated spots, the Exocarpus cu- 

 pressiforme, or native cherry-tree, was seen ; but 

 the situation appeared uncongenial to its growth ; 

 for, instead of the graceful and elegantly pending 

 branches, with delicate dark-green foliage, such as 

 this tree presents when growing in sheltered situa- 

 tions, it now had a stunted, brown, and wretched 

 appearance. About noon, we arrived at Mr. 

 Murphy's station at Bingham, being seventeen 

 miles from Squashfield. 



The approach to marshy land is readily indi- 

 cated b}^ the melody of the frog tribe, among 



