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CHAPTER X. 



Leave Yas Plains for Sydney— Mr. Shelly's farm— Splendid 

 new road — Mr. Barber's farm — Shoalhaven gullies— Inte- 

 resting spot — Mr. Campbell's farm — Journey resumed — 

 Settlement of Bong, Bong— Bargo Brush— Profusion of 

 flowering shrubs — View from the summit of Mount Prud- 

 hoe— The cow pasture road— Farms of Mr. M'Arthur, and 

 Captain Coghill — Flowers— The white cedar — Government 

 hospital at Liverpool. 



On the 13th of October, I left Yas Plains on 

 my return to Sydney,* retracing my route by 

 Gonnong, Mut, mut, billy, I arrived at Goul- 

 burn Plains on the 14th. Resuming my jour- 

 ney on the following morning, accompanied by 

 some friends, they carried me a different route 

 from that by which I arrived at the plains : the 

 road led over a rather hilly but open forest and 

 good pasture land, and, travelling a distance of 

 fifteen miles, (when close brush asserted its 

 triumph over the former fine country,) we ar- 



* Yas Plains are distant one hundred and eighty-six miles 

 from Sydney. 



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