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CHAPTER XIII. 



Devoted attachment of Women — Remarkable instance of this, 

 exempHfied in the tale of an Australian savage — Journey 

 resumed — Botanical productions — The Munne-munne range 

 — Luxuriant plain— Mr. Warby's farm — The bell bird — 

 Junction of the Murrumbidgee and Tumat rivers — Native 

 names of rivers — Soil — River cod — Aquatic fowl — The 

 Tumat country — Fertility of the plains — Assigned servants 

 — A mountainous range — The Murrumbidgee Pine — Geo- 

 logical character of the vicinity — Mr. Rose's cattle station. 



How agreeable it is at all times to see a strong 

 feeling of attachment, more especially when 

 conspicuous in a female. Who has read that 

 beautiful tale, " Waverley," and failed to admire 

 this feeling, so well displayed by Flora M'lvor 

 towards her unfortunate brother ! And other 

 instances, equally beautiful and correct, are scat- 

 tered over our literary productions, founded "on 

 o'er true tales." It is met with, emanating from 

 the human heart, both in savage and civilized life ; 

 and it is correctly stated by an elegant writer, 

 that "there is a latent intellectual force in woman, 

 capable of being called into action only by cir- 



