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which overhung- the creek. The horses were got 

 into the creek with a g-reat deal of diflGiculty, then 

 harnessed to the carts^ and we proceeded along- the 

 hed of the creek tUl we arrived at a spot where the 

 hanks on the opposite side were not so steep. At 

 this place hy harnessing- six horses to each of the 

 carts, we managed to get them all out of the 

 creek without any accident. The bed of the creek 

 was composed of granite pehbles. We encamped 

 on the northern side of it, the soil being a strong 

 clayey loam, well covered with grass two or three 

 feet high, so thick that it was difl&cult to walk 

 through it. The country here was hilly open forest- 

 land, with a high range before us, running north- 

 east. The trees were principally Moreton Bay ash, 

 box, and another species of eucalyptus, resembhng 

 the common iron-bark, but with long narrow leaves. 

 I also found a magnificent species of Grevillea, 

 with fine pinnatifid silvery leaves, and beautiful 

 racemes of orange-coloured flowers; also another 

 tree belonging to the same natural order, rivalling 

 the Grevillea in the beauty of its flowers, producing 

 an abundance of cream-coloured blossoms, on com- 

 pound, terminal racemes. In the scrub by the side 

 of the creek, I found a most beautiful Scitamineous 

 plant, the foliage, root, and habit of which resembled 

 Hedychium. The beauty of the plant consisted in 

 its large, stifi^ shining hracteee, which continue to 

 grow after the small pink blossoms have fallen. 

 The hractece are about half an inch broad at the 



