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tlic Itixiiriniit little vullrv JK'Tieatli, wn^j very 

 iK'nulilul. llmiiijii' led our liorscs down, we 

 passed tlii'ougii an open forest country, w^liich 



presei^ $^ imi^ prospect thsm mj I 



liad yet sei^. A^mk tMis patt k doo&lxy I 



rcnijn'krd tlic Indigo sJmih {fiHligofrm Aifsfrnlis) 

 abundant, and I was told that indigo of good fina- 

 lity lias been prepared from it at Batluirst. The 

 spe^rf E^alyptus, called **iJfmiitta*tiNrf*% 



Mm, but the season ^^mii^ fe^ atifficicntly ad- 

 vanced for its secretion., wliich is usually about 

 the months of December and January. The 

 Currijong-trce {Hibiscus heUrophyllus !) was also 

 occasionally seem g^whig in ffm&i^ «aid 

 more often in eltvii^ ftta ^^tuations : it 

 has a lively appearance, more especially con- 

 trasted w ith the other trees around it ; the bark 

 is rougii, greyisli, thick, and spongy, and the 

 wo^d h is^ By aborigines t&t boals m 

 ^oea^ There Kre Mdlgei^toua to 



the colony:| from the bark of one, if \wt of 

 Imth, the natives manufacture durable ro])e for 

 nets, Sec, as the Polynesian islanders use the 

 bark of another species gS Sibiscus (H* 



By nine a. .m. we passed a deserted station, 

 f[>rmerly culled, and still known as *' Vincent^s 



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