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Arrive at Wombat Brush — Animals callct! Wombat — ParclK^d 

 eountry — Koad-sitie houses — Colonial English— Column to 

 the memory of La iPerotise — Death of Le Redeireaf^ 

 Sydflfey pi&licc-ofrice — ^TheBosfatd — Botanic gardtan— The 

 aborigines — King Bungaree — Thei castor-oil shrub — Dis- 

 eases of Australia — New Zealanders— Australian ladies — 

 Prejudice against travellers from Botan}' Bay — ^Anecdote— 

 A fisliinp: excursion— Ccplialopodous animals — Condusioil 

 of the autlior's researches in this colony. 



On the 30th of December I left Goulbtm PMrns^ 

 and arrived the same evening at Arth^teigh. 

 Oil the day following I crossed the " Uringalle," 

 (moro commonly known by the name of ^'Paddy's 

 river," ) and arrived at Wombat Brush." This 

 tract of forest Imi was so Bumed jbeing 

 forifierly feqneiKt^ by a tnaiftber of the atdi^als 



called *'*Woni)iat/" Imt wliicli arc uowim^f Ot 

 never seen iii the vicinity of the settlement, tlie 

 whole h;n'ing bet n nearly destrnyt'd. About tlie 

 Tumat and Murrunibidgee country 1 witnessed 

 numerous bwwvs ; and certain marks of the 



