THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST &7 
me,) I desire to recommend from personal observation those which 
I think worthy of cultivation for sanitary objects. 
TO WILSON’S PROMONTORY OVERLAND. 
By J. B. Grecory, LL.M., ann A. H. 8. Lucas, M.A. 
Part III. 
WE may premise that in a walking tour of this kind, even with a 
pack-horse, collecting is not quite so simple as it is on a Club ex- 
cursion or when one is staying in the country at a hotel. In the 
first case one can bring home all one’s findiags the same day. and 
set them out the same evening, or at least see that they are placed 
in a position of security and of convenience for final preservation. 
In the second the hotel serves as head quarters to which all spoils 
can be taken, and where they can be left while fresh sallies are being 
made in the neighbouring country. In our case the difficulty was 
enhanced. by the fact that except in the Promontory itself we were 
not taking the route in going which we proposed to take on our 
return. So a cache of specimens was, save in the Promontory 
itself, impossible. As the horse had to carry tent, &c., and a fort- 
night’s provisions (not the least weighty part thereof for himself) it 
was not possible to load him with much collecting tackle. As the pro- 
yisions diminished of course his ability to carry specimens increased. 
Another difficulty in collecting was the necessity for forced marches. 
Our distance had to be done, and done in a certain time. As we 
tramped some 240 miles in one fortnight, with an average of 17 
miles a day, and as the horse had to be led, it was impossible to 
linger long in the way or to make any serious divergence from the 
track. The country was not an easy one, and at the close of each 
march fatigue prevented any great exertion to secure an object which 
might haye to be hunted. We limited then our scientific objects to 
these ; to see the bush in its native wildness, and the plants and 
animals as they live in it, and to acquire possession of such speci- 
mens as it might be convenient to capture, to carry, and tu pre- 
serve. 
The ground we traversed was a classic collecting ground. Some 
thirty years ago Baron von Mueller worked up the plants of 
Wilson’s Promontory and of the country between Stockyard Creek 
and Griffith’s Point. Here, alone, for four days without food, 
reduced one night to his last match wherewith to light a fire, while 
the rain was drenching him, our pioneer readily faced the chances of 
death by cold, exposure, and hunger, in order to add to science a . 
knowledge of the Flora of these interesting districts. 
