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as the " Weatherboard Hut," the name universally in use 

 until Wentworth Palls was adopted for the locality. 



"Some boggy slopes at the back of our wooden house 

 have been called Lewin's or Jamieson's Plains." 



It is in the vicinity of Wentworth Falls that most of the 

 notes by Cunningham in regard to specific Blue Mountain 

 plants were made. 2 



Pitt's Amphitheatre.— This is another collecting ground 

 of Cunningham, 5 miles from the Weatherboard or 33 miles 

 from Emu Ford; it is a sweep of the Kanimbla Valley, and 

 faces Campbell's Cataract (Wentworth Falls). He observes 

 that he did not notice Lambertia formosa further west 

 than about the 32 mile mark. 



Blackheath.— " We arrived at an open but low bushy tract 

 of country which His Excellency (Macquarie) had named (in 1815) 

 Hounslow Heath, although it is frequently called Black Heath, 

 Halted to-day in this heath, near the 41 mile mark. The water 

 here is far from being good, being the drainings of the low black 

 peat, which constitutes the soil of the slopes from the heath." 



It was in these "spongy bogs" that Cunningham found 

 his new species of Grevillea (acanthi folia). Here he records 

 having got seeds of the Eucalyptus, afterwards named 

 stricta, " a small tree not exceeding 14 feet, forming a 

 close brush, and covering the whole of the Heath and the 

 mountains to the eastward." 



Mount York.— This place is important for botanical and 

 other reasons. Cunningham collected freely in the vicinity. 

 Here is what he terms the " abrupt termination of the 

 Mountains," Cox's Pass, the Vale of Clwydd, and here 

 starts (inconveniently decreed by Macquarie) the third 



1 The name of Eucalyptus stellulata should be added to our list of 

 Eucalypts on the Blue Mountains, as it occurs close to the railway line a 

 few hundred yards beyond Wentworth Falls Station. 



