280 TIMEHRI. 
PROSPECTUS. 
The Author of the Work, now offered with every due 
deference to the notice of the public, does not obtrude 
himself from the vanity of appearing with his name affixed 
to any produétion, however great, or however meritorious 
its pretensions as a publication may be; for in either 
respect, he presumes not to arrogate to it the smallest 
title. He does not promulgate any remarks or observa- 
tions of his from their possessing any peculiar claim to 
originality ; neither does he impertinently push forward 
the offspring of his leisure hours as possessing intrinsic 
worth suited to the undertaking he ventures thus to lay 
before them ;—his sole obje&t being to communicate to 
others, who may labour under difficulties similar to those 
he himself encountered at the first set out of his rambles 
into the wilds and impenetrable depths of the forest, such 
local information, as circumstances conneéted with their 
plans and projeéted excursions into the pathiess waste, 
or dreary solitude, may stand in need of. 
A local guide, of any description, was a desideratum 
felt with much earnestness by the Author; and having 
been without the aid of a book of reference, he laboured 
under an inconceivable difficulty at the first outset— 
ignorant of the precise topography of the country—fearful 
of being lost amidst the wooded entanglements of the 
matted ‘‘ Bush’’—unacquainted with the chosen spot, 
and favoured tree of resort of the rare and beautifully 
plumaged race, he groped as it were in the dark until 
well-bought experience had taught what bush to beat and 
covert to search. 
One friend—a much valued friend, chance threw in his 
way, and to him he stands deeply indebted. The greatest 
