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wished, but now he ascertained Twofold Bay to 

 be situated at the South end of a chain of hills, 

 one part of which is more conspicuous than the 

 rest, laying behind the bay. The land on the 

 West side of this chain of hills, is both high 

 and rocky. The shore divided into steep cliff 

 heads, with small beaches ; the one formed by 

 the foremost ridges, and the others by the sand 

 thrown up at the foot of the vallies, and ponds 

 of brackish water were found behind the 

 beaches. 



The sudden rise of the hills permit the vege- 

 table earth to be washed down into the vallies, 

 and some of the gradual slopes retain enough 

 of it to produce a thick coat of grass ; however 

 the soil partakes too much of the stoney quality 

 of the higher parts for cultivation. 



The hills and vallies produce large timber 

 and brush- wood ; on the hills, the brush-wood 

 grows in small clumps ; but in the vallies it 

 not only covers all the surface, but is bound 

 together by creeping vines of various sizes. 



In the S. W. corner of the bay, is a small 

 inlet that communicates with the sea, through 

 the beach at the back of which it lies. The 

 chain of hills here runs back some distance from 

 the water, and leaving some miles of \good 

 ground, through which the inlet takes its 

 course to the S.W. for six or eight miles, where 

 it ends in swamps and marshes. On its banks 

 they saw some hundred acres of alight sandy 

 soil, in patches of from 50 to 100 acres each; 

 but on the mountain side, it soon became stoney, 



