124 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW 
and though now accessible to travellers and familiar to readers of 
travels, are already disappearing, or are doomed to disappear, before 
the axe and the forest fires, the plough, and the flock, of the ever- 
advancing settler and colonist. Such scenes can never be renewed 
by Nature, nor when once effaced can they be pictured to the mind’s 
eye, except by means of such records as these.” 
