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The following day I went dredging, but without profit. By- 

 favour of the governor I had the use of the harbour-master's 

 boat. The crew consisted of two New Zealanders and two 

 South-Sea Islanders, capital boatmen. I spent another day 

 collecting Algae and shells, and found a plentiful stock of 

 Delisea pulchra, which is a deep-water plant, and only cast up 

 after storms. 



Before leaving Newcastle I went to Hexham, ten miles up 

 the Hunter river, to visit Mr. Scott, who lives on an island con- 

 taining about 3000 acres, the greater part of which belongs to 

 him. He came in his boat to meet me. He has a very pretty 

 cottage and garden. In front of his door stand a pair of fine 

 Norfolk Island pines, and near the house were date-trees in 

 fruit. Behind it a garden of orange-trees, numbering 1100, the 

 fruit of which sold last year for 700Z. I found him a most 

 agreeable, well-informed, educated gentleman, and with two 

 clever and accomplished daughters reared (like Miranda) on the 

 island. Their chief amusement is finding and rearing cater- 

 pillars and taking drawings of the moths and butterflies that 

 come from them. . They have many exquisite drawings of these 

 insects in all their stages, from the eggs to perfect growth. 

 Mr. Scott is preparing a work on the Lepkloptera of Australia. 

 He gave me a box of shells for the Museum, Trinity College, 

 Dublin, chiefly from Moreton Bay. I returned the following 

 morning to the house of my hospitable friend Mr. Bennett at 

 Sydney, and busied myself in preparing for my voyage to the 

 Fiji Islands; my object in going thither being the opportunity 

 thus afforded of visiting some of the coral reefs in the Pacific. 

 I expect to bn four months among this group and that of the 

 Friendly Islands. 



