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Female and child of Australia Felix. (PI. 34.) . . 212 



Boat on the Glenelg. (PI. 35.) . . . 225 



Yellow flower abundant on the plains of A ustralia Felix . 255 



General view over the Grampians from the summit of Mount Abrupt 258 



Mount Abrupt from the south . . . 261 



Portrait of an Eagle that had been winged (natural size). (PI. 30.) 264 



Mount William from Mount Stavely . . 207 



Weapons of the natives • . . 269 



Hills of lava, or mammeloid hills, from Moimt Greenock . 276 



Port Phillip, 50 miles distant, as seeu through a glass from Mt. Maeedon 284 



Cobaw waterfall, with natives fishing (PI. 37.) . . 286 

 General view of the sandstone districts, from the summit of Jellore. 



(PI. 38.) . . . .323 



Portrait of Moyengully, chief of NattaL (PI. 39.) . 323 

 Map of Eastern Australia, and natural limits of the Colony of New South 



Wales. (PI. 40.) . . . .333 



The bommereng, a singular missile . . 348 



Narrow shield, or hieleman . . • 349 

 Scenery around the entrance of the largest cavern in the limestone at 



Wellington Valley. (PI. 41.) . . • • 353 

 Geological map of Wellington Valley. (PI. 42.) . . 359 

 Interior of the largest cavern. (PL 43.) . • 300 

 Vertical section and ground-plot of two caverns. (PL 44.) . 361 

 Interior of the cavern containing osseous breccia. (PL 45.) . 302 

 Rock of breccia found on the surface above the largest cavern. (PL 46.) 304 

 Fossil remains and recent specimens, each of the natural size : Fig. 1, be- 

 longing to Macropus Atlas, and fig. 2, to the largest recent specimen : 

 Figures 3, 4, and 5, to Macropus Titan : Fig. 6, the incisor of a fossil 

 kangaroo : Fig. 7, the incisor of the largest now known : Fig. 8, 

 Fossil lumbar vertebra. (PL 47.) . . 300 

 Fossil remains of a new species of Hypsiprymnus, figures 1, 2, and 3 ; of 

 Plmscolomys Mitchellii, figures 4, 5, and 6 : figure 7 being a sec- 

 tion of the teeth of the same fossil species of wombat. (PL 48.) 368 

 Fossil remains of the Diprotodon, figures 1 and 2 ; and of the Dasyurus 



laniarius, figures 3, 4, 5, 0, and 7. (PL 49.) . . 309 



INIarks of subsidence in an inner portion of the breccia cavern. (PL 50.) 370 

 Fossil remains of the radius and ulna of a kangaroo, fig. 1 : of the foot of 

 a dasyurus, fig. 2 : Various teeth of animals unknown are shewn in 

 figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: all these drawings being of the 

 natural size. Tlie two figures, 12 and 13, represent, on a reduced 

 scale, the large bone which M. Cuvier supposed to have belonged 



to a young elephant. (PI. 51.) . • • 372 



Rocks in Bass's Straits— 1. The Pyramid : 2. A rock of gvauite . 375 



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