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Bartle Frere rise to elevations exceeding 5,000 feet, and 

 these are for the most part walls of brush to within a few 

 feet of their actual crests. In all these mountain scenes, 

 the Malayan element of the tropical flora, which includes 

 fig trees, climbing vines, palms, dense jungle, etc., adds a 

 magnificence and grandeur unsurpassed, and in only a few 

 instances equalled in any portion of Australia. 



The impressions formed by botanists from the Southern 

 States on arrival at Cairns will vary to some extent accord- 

 ing to the season of the year, and flowering plants which 

 may appear common at one season may be scarcely noticed 

 at others. One cannot fail to be impressed however, with 

 the tropical nature of the flora, and in the course of a short 



