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effect which such an inspection produces on the mind is very 
singular. It kindles in us (and I speak from personal ex- 
perience) feelings of curiosity, but no sympathy. We delight 
in bright green foliage, sweet- smelling flowers, and fruits with 
some kind of taste in them. But we have here none of all 
these. The leaves are of a dull, often brownish, green, and 
without any lustre, the flowers do not smell, and the fruits, 
without any exception, are tasteless and insipid. Is the whole 
of this vegetation, and the animals depending upon it for 
support, to disappear before the continent becomes a fit abode 
for the white man ? 
Plates 2 and 3 represent a few specimens of the fossil species found in 
Europe, and their corresponding living types, the former illustrated by 
woodcuts, the latter by nature-printing. Fig. 1 , Fagus pygmcea, and fig. 5, 
Fagus Chamoephegos, two fossil species ; figs. 2, 3, and 4, Fagus obliqua ; 
fig. 6, Fagus betuloides and Fagus Cunninghami , three existing species ; 
fig. 8, the fossil Exocarpus Badobojana, and fig. 9, the existing Exocarpus 
cupressiformis ; fig. 10, the fossil Grevillea Kymmeana, and fig. 11, the 
existing Lomatia linearis ; fig. 13, the extinct Banksia Solonis, and fig. 14, 
the existing Banksia serrata. 
