ULVk: MOUNTAINS. 



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wdmired by tlie stranger, were regard od only as 

 woeds. All fliis, lin\vevpi\ tlioiiolit I, on re- 

 flection, is pericetly natural ; here, our plants 

 ajfe rare, md theirs^ worthless Iso'^li^, a^^.«^w 

 to US} mM'j <iOift86qu^tl £itd*$etl wrtk fn ^ 

 grepen-hnusos at liouie. But a lady ju^^t arrived 

 from England at tlie Cape, enuld luirdly hv. per- 

 suaded that siic might gather the flowers seen 

 growing m mch 'pfofaasam a;»4' beauty around, 

 and which Bhe vra& aisctistoiued to i^agard as 

 exotics at home. 



The inn> in the Australian colony are neat and 

 elegant, well supplied, and charges very mode- 

 rate. We left the Mgrim Im"* alKmt three 

 o^doc^ ^vMv* mid p^^ed^ m m» ^ism&f 

 through an excellent road "flte Bbie Motm- 

 tains, whicli is formed upon a dividing ridge of 

 this mountaiuoQS range ; on each side thick 

 forests, deep romantic glens, occasionally enli- 

 V^iled by beikuttful flow^diag slltabs, formed the 

 iandlSGII^e scenery around us. After i>assittg a 

 great niunbiT fd' forest oaks," {Casifariua torit- 

 losa,) whoso dark green filiform foliage liad n 

 peculiar appearance, and turpentine trees/'* 



^d extended' into the interior of the 



* The " turpentine tree" attains the elevatilWi of j^ilnt 

 iixty to ninety feet, and a (tiametei- of tltree fe^U 



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