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low strag'gling' thickets, — scattered bushes of 

 SwiaTM maritima and Pemphis acida fringe the 

 sandy margin of the island, and behind these the 

 beautiful Josephinia grandiflora, a large white- 

 flowered Calyptranth-ubS, Vitex ovata and a Tribulvs 

 creep along the sand, or spread out their procum- 

 bent branches. 



Traces of natives, but not very recent, were met 

 with in a dried-up well dug to a great depth, and 

 several low, dome-shaped huts, and numerous fire- 

 places, around which remains of shell-fish and turtle 

 were profusely scattered. Many of the heads of 

 these last animals were here and elsewhere seen 

 stuck upon branches of trees, sometimes a dozen 

 together. 



July Zlst. — I landed this morning with Mr. 

 Obree, on one of the Two Isles off Cape Flattery, 

 and we were picked up by the ship in passing. It is 

 well-wooded, chiefly with the Mimusops Kaukii, 

 trees of which are here often 60 feet high and 3 in 

 diameter. Under tlie bark I found two new land- 

 shells (to be described in the Appendix), one of 

 them a flattish Helix, in prodigious numbers, — 

 and this more than ever satisfied me that even the 

 smallest islands and detached reefs of the north-east 

 coast may have species peculiar to themselves, nor 

 did I ever return from any one of the 37 upon 

 which I landed without some acquisitions to the 

 collection. 



We remained a fortnight at Lizard Island, at the 



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