PORT WATERFALL. 



Feb. 1827. 



by a magnificent cascade formed by the union of two tor- 

 rents. 



All the plants of the Strait grow here : a sweet*scented Cal- 

 lixene (C. marginata, Lam^.) filled the air with its odour ; and 

 a beautiful flower we had not previously seen, was found by 

 Mr. Graves : it was pendulous, tubular, about two inches long 

 (Class. Hexand. Monog. Cal. 2. Pet. 3. pointed), and of a rich 

 carnation colour. 



The trees are small and stunted ; they are of the usual 

 species. Beech and Winter' s-bark. Here we first noticed a large 

 fern,* having a stem two or three feet long, and five or six 

 inches in diameter, very similar to the Zamia of New Hol- 

 land. We saw very few birds, and no quadrupeds. Among 

 the former was a king-fisher, which at the time was new to us ; 

 but it is distributed over a large tract of South America, and 

 I have since seen a specimen said to have been shot at Rio de 

 Janeiro. 



Fitton Harbour is a deep inlet, surrounded on all sides by 

 precipitous land, rising to the height of three, or four thousand 

 feet, and terminated by peaks, of most fantastic shape, covered 

 with ice and snow. 



Between Fitton Harbour and Cape Rowlett are high moun- 

 tains, two of which, more conspicuous than the rest, we called 

 ^ Mount Sherrard,"* and ' Curious Peak.' 



Card Point proved to be clay-slate, and I think the pro- 

 jection of Cape Rowlett, and the mountains, are also of this 

 rock. 



While crossing over towards Cape Rowlett, (the south head 

 of a deep sound, trending to the S.E., which it was my intention 

 to examine), we were met by three canoes, containing, together, 

 about twenty-four people, and ten or twelve dogs. Mr. Wick- 

 ham recognised them to be the same party who had visited the 

 Hope on her last cruize ; the thief, however, was not amongst 

 them, fearing probably he might be known. 



These natives conducted themselves very quietly, and, except 

 sone of the women, who wished to keep a tin-pot in which some 

 * This fern we found at the island of Juan Fernandez also. 



