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reptile discovered among the blankets, and 

 killed : it was a " black snake," and measured 

 full three feet in length. The warm valley in 

 which the farm is situated, as well as its being 

 near the river, must make it an agreeable retreat 

 to the reptiles. We, however, slept through the 

 night without experiencing any visits from them, 

 although we often expected to feel their cold 

 bodies gliding over and awakening us, from 

 •pleasant dreams to disagreeable realities. 



The following morning we proceeded on the 

 journey to " Gudarigby," over a 'hilly and 

 broken, but still romantic and beautiful country ; 

 with a variety of flowering plants spread over the 

 luxuriant, verdant declivities and flats, casting 

 different hues over the soil ; among them the 

 delicate and beautiful orchideous plant called 

 "fringed violet" by the colonists, the Thysanotus 

 junceus of botanists, was particularly abundant : 

 its elegant lilac-coloured flowers, in clusters of 

 from three to six upon the same stalk were 

 very conspicuous. The " native hyacinth," and 

 others of the Orchidece family, with white, dark 

 red, yellow, and pink flowers, were abundant. 



After proceeding full six miles over a rich but 

 broken country, fertile flats, and limestone hills, 

 the declivities rich in herbage, but the summits 

 arid, rocky, and bare of verdure, — we arrived 



