SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
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returned to Parramatta, 4th January, 1823. He suffered privations, 
principally owing to poor food, even on this journey, which formed 
the basis of the following paper : — • 
“ A Specimen of the Indigenous Botany of the Mountainous Country 
Between the Colony Round Port Jackson and the Settlement at 
Bathurst ; being a Portion of the Result of Observations made in the 
Months of October, November, and December, 1822. Disposed accord- 
ing to the Natural Orders by Mr. Allan Cunningham, Botanical Collector 
for His Majesty’s Gardens at Kew.” See Barron Field’s “ New South 
Wales,” pages 325-365. 
This is a purely botanical paper, and contains descriptions of a 
number of new species, with references to the occurrence of some 
described previously. Then comes a “ Journal of a Route from 
Bathurst to Liverpool Plains in New South Wales, Explored bv Mr. 
Allan Cunningham, His Majesty’s Collector for Kew Gardens,” with 
a map (see Barron Field, pages 131-192), which is a modest record 
of the following important expedition. 
He left Sydney 31st March, 1823, and returned to Bathurst. On 
the 21st July he returned to Parramatta. 
In this memorable journey he discovered Pandora’s Pass, through 
the formidable Liverpool Range into the Liverpool Plains. This Pass, 
though marked in the map accompanying the journal, is not referred 
to by name in the journal itself, but at page 174 of Barron Field’s 
work it is alluded to. At page 49 of Howard’s “ Memoir,” which is 
copied at page 403 of Favenc’s “ History of Australian Exploration,” 
it is stated that Cunningham wrote a memorandum on parchment, 
and buried it under a marked tree in the Pandora Pass. The document 
was dated 9th June, 1823, and is given in full by Howard. 
In November, 1823, he again left Sydney on another expedition. 
On the 26th he left Mr. Bell’s farm, saw a beautiful prospect, which 
he called “ Bell’s View ” (doubtless the Kurrajong Heights), and 
shortly afterwards reached a mountain named by the aborigines 
“ Tomah.” Here he discovered the beautiful little yellow-flowered 
climber around tree ferns which he named Fieldia australis (Barron 
Field, page 363). He returned to Parramatta on 10th December. 
His journey was, doubtless, the forerunner of a portion of Bell’s 
line of road from Richmond to Bathurst. 
In January, 1824, he went to Bathurst, and on his return he met the 
officers of the French discovery ship “ La Coquille,” Captain Duperry, 
and furthered the botanical work of M. Dumont D’Urville, the botanist 
of the expedition, and also assisted M. Lesson, the zoologist. 
In March, 1824, Cunningham went south through the counties of 
Camden and Argyle, visited Lakes George and Bathurst, the head 
