126 J. H. MAIDEN AND R. H. CAMBAGE. 



(this tree is not present and it is impossible to say to which 

 species he refers, without seeing his specimens), E. resini- 

 fera and Casuarina torulosa are predominant, with another 

 species of Eucalyptus called by the colonists Stringy-bark" 

 (E. eugenioides). 1 



The original "spring in the wood" is, according to Major 

 Antill (who accompanied Governor Macquarie in 1815) 

 " about a mile down a deep glen." It is at North Spring- 

 wood, on the late Dr. Norton's property, and Cunningham 

 collected freely here. It is now almost a quagmire from 

 the trampling of dairy cattle and is overrun with Polygonum. 

 Eucalyptus Deanei is common about the spring, together 

 with Eugenia Smithii, Syncarpia laurifolia, Synoum 

 glandulosum and Santalum obtusifolium. The spring is 

 the head of Fitzgerald's Greek. 



With others we joined in the search for the so-called 

 " Caley's Repulse," a name given by Governor Macquarie 

 on his journey over the Blue Mountains in 1815, to a cairn 

 of stones erected by an early explorer. One of us, at pp. 

 133 to 138 of " Sir Joseph Banks: the Father of Australia," 

 has given the history of this Cairn, and Cunningham refers 

 to it. He says it is " near the 18th mile-mark," and at 

 another place states that it is 6 miles from Springwood and 

 8 miles from King's Tableland. Near the bend of the road 

 past Mr. Baynes' house (on the hill beyond Linden) is the 

 mile-stone "5f miles to Springwood," so "Caley's Repulse" 

 was somewhere about here, i.e., between here and Wood- 

 ford. Some allowance may, however, have to be made 

 from the points at which mileages from Springwood were 

 measured in Cunningham's and our own day. 



Cunningham tells us that " Persoonia (?) microcarpa (P. 

 mlcrocarpa is a West Australian plant), a tall shrub, is 



1 See a paper by the authors "Notes on the Eucalypts of the Blue 

 Mountains." Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., xxx, 190 (1905). 



