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the entrance to some rock temple of the giants. They stood 50 feet 
high and 20 feet apart. Into the pool between these pillars fell a 
splendid cascade about 50 feet in height. Beyond that rose seven 
others, all of similar altitude, rising one above* the other through 
the long contracting vista, until the last one looked like a sheet 
of glittering snow in the remote end far up the side of the 
mountain, the whole forming what I have described in my official 
report as one silver flashing sublime staircase of descending waters. 
I stood entranced in the presence of this magnificent and wonderful 
scene, that rivals in its living reality all that Romance, the " parent of 
golden dreams," ever pictured in the fancy of the poet and the 
painter. To this scene I have given the name of the " Morehead 
Cataracts," in honour of the Premier of a Government who sent out 
the first purely Australian Scientific Expedition. 
Below this scene, in the main creek which descends 700 feet in a 
mile, are the Francesca Falls — cataract above cataract, from 50 feet to 
200 feet in height, a spectacle over which the artists and poets and 
landscape photographers of the future will rave in all the delirious 
ecstacy of art and sandwiches, poetry and porter, cameras and whisky. 
Immortal gods ! what punishment has mankind ever devised adequate 
to fittingly reward the tourist Goths and Vandals who would strew 
their base sardine tins, their abominable sandwich wrappers, and 
infernal rum bottles over this splendid picture in the art gallery of 
Nature ! Within a radius of two miles of the Whelanian Pools is 
probably a larger number of lovely scenes than in the same distance 
in any other part of Australia. Mr. Bailey went down with me to see 
the Morehead Cataracts, and after a brief admiration of the scene he 
proceeded to describe the surrounding vegetation in names that I dare 
not mention here, having already been called on to pay several bills 
for surgical operations on citizens who threw their jaws out of gear 
over my last article. One of the plants was the JPogonatherum 
saecharoideum, an Indian grass, found there for the first time in 
Australia. On the third day at the Pools, Whelan and myself went 
up the main spur running to the South Peak, and cut a track for 2,600 
feet, to enable the blackboys to carry their packs during the ascent. 
At 2,300 feet we were fortunate to find the fruit which Mr. Bailey 
has named Garcinia Mestoni, or " Meston's Mangosteen," the 
first of the Garcinia family found in Australia. The trees we 
saw — at this point only and nowhere else — were about 15 feet 
or 20 feet high, handsome little trees, with the leaves drooping in 
clusters, a fruit hanging pendent in the centre of each cluster. On 
my first trip to the mountain this fruit was found in a ripe state and 
large as a full-sized orange. In all stages, ripe or green, it is a bright 
olive green, and can be eaten in any condition. When ripe it has a 
very pleasant acid taste, with a delightful flavour. When only half 
grown, as we found it this time, it was eaten by the whole party, and 
had a most refreshing effect on a hot and thirsty day. It is certainly 
a remarkable fruit, and Mr. Soutter, of the Acclimatisation Gardens, 
will doubtless do his best with the seeds brought down by me on a 
previous occasion. Baron Von Mueller thinks the discovery of this 
one fruit alone would have repaid Mr. Bailey for all his journey, but 
Mr. Bailey has added to botanical science, besides the Garcinia, a 
greater number of new species than were collected during the whole 
of the Owen Stanley expedition in New Guinea, the latter, too, ranging 
