XIV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Pass throush the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect — Vegeta- 

 tion on the Mountains — View of Eimeo — Excursion into the 

 Interior — Profound Ravines — Succession of Water-falls — 

 Number of wild useful Plants — Temperance of the Inha- 

 bitants — Their Moral State — Parliament convened — New 

 Zealand — Bay of Islands — Hippahs — Excursion to Waimatc 



— Missionary Establishment — English Weeds now run Avild 



— Waiomio — Funeral of a New Zealand AVoman — Sail for 

 Australia Pa^e 402 



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CHAPTER XIX. 



Sydney — Excursion to Bathurst — Aspect of the Woods — Party 

 of Natives — Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines — Infection 

 generated by associated men in health — Blue Mountains — 

 View of the grand gulf-like Vallevs — Their Orioin and Formation 

 — Bathurst, general civility of the lower orders — State of 

 Society — Van Diemen's Land — Hobart Town — Aborigines all 

 banished — Mount Wellington — King George's Sound — Cheer- 

 less aspect of the Country — Bald-head, calcareous casts of 

 Branches of Trees — Party of Natives — Leave Australia 431 



CHAPTER XX. 



Keeling Island — Singular appearance — Scanty Flora — Transport 

 of Seeds — Birds and Insects — Ebbing and flowing Wells — 

 Fields of dead Coral — Stones transported in the roots of trees 



— Great Crab — Stinging Corals — Coral-eating Fish — Coral 

 Formations — Lagoon Islands, or Atolls — Dei:>th at which reef- 

 buildino; Corals can live — Vast Areas interspersed with low 

 Coral Islands — Subsidence of their Foundations — Barrier Pieefs 



— Fringing Reefs — Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier 

 Reefs, and into Atolls — Evidence of Changes in Level — 

 Breaches in Barrier Reefs — Maldiva Atolls ; their peculiar 

 Structure — Dead and submerged Reefs — Areas of Subsidence 

 and Elevation — Distribution of Volcanos — Subsidence slow, 

 and vast in amount 452 



