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feet high, the straig-ht trunks rising twenty or thirty 

 feet from the ground to the branches, being covered 

 with blossoms, with which not a leaf mingled. 

 There were ripe and unripe fruit mingled Avith the 

 blossoms, the scent of the latter being delightful, 

 spreading perfume over a great distance around ; I 

 had frequently noticed the fragrance of these blos- 

 soms while passing through the scrub, but could 

 not before make out from whence it arose. It resem- 

 bles the scent of a ripe pine-apple, but is much more 

 powerful. There are not many of these trees to be 

 found, and those only in the scrub, in a stiiF loamy 

 soil. The small animals eat the fruit, and I tasted 

 some, but it was not so good as the rose-apple ; we 

 called it the white-apple. It is a species oi Eugenia. 



A short distance to the south-west of our camp, 

 is a range of round hiUs, of moderate height, 

 covered with grass, and thinly timbered with box 

 and other species of eucalyptus, resembling the 

 iron-bark. These lulls are composed of huge blocks 

 of coarse granite, with a stiff soil, and appear to 

 stretch a long distance to the west. 



July Is*.— Mr. Kennedy returned this morning, 

 having explored the country for about forty mUes, 

 over which he thought we might travel safely. 

 There being plenty of grass however at the camp, 

 and the men no better, he determined to defer our 

 advance tUl Monday. 



Jidy 2nd. — Being Sunday, prayers were read at 

 eleven o'clock. 



