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waters of the Murrumbidgee, the Monaro, and Shoalhaven gullies. 
He returned to Parramatta the first week in May. In July and August 
he was again at the Illawarra. 
On 1st September he left Sydney with Lieut. Oxley for Moreton 
Bay, where they arrived on the 11th. The object of the expedition 
was to see if the vicinity was suitable for the establishment of a branch 
of the colony. He returned to Sydney on the 14th October, and before 
the end of the year was again at Bathurst. 
He then set out on another expedition. Leaving Parramatta at 
the end of March, he crossed the Hawkesbury at Richmond, pro- 
ceeded to the Wollombi, thence to Mount Dangar, and made for 
Pandora’s Pass, already discovered by him. Thence he descended to 
the Liverpool Plains. On the 18th May he commenced his homeward 
journey, arrived at Bathurst on the 7th June, and Parramatta on 
the 17th. 
The three last months of 1825 were spent in the vicinity of Wellington 
Valley, and he botanised about a hundred and fifty jniles on each side 
of the Macquarie River. 
From the end of February, 1826, he occupied six months in collecting 
in his favourite localities of Cox’s River and the Illawarra.* 
On the 28th August, 1826, he left for New Zealand, arriving on the 
9th September at Paihai, the Church Missionary Society’s Station in 
the Bay of Lslands. Heward gives a long account of this trip, which 
was terminated on the 29th December, and he landed in Sydney on 
the 20th January, 1827. 
Following are accounts from his pen of the important botanical 
results achieved by Cunningham in New Zealand on this and other 
visits he paid to that colony : — 
“ FlorjE insularum Novse Zelandiae precursor; or, A Specimen of 
the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand,” (Hooker’s “ Companion 
to the Botanical Magazine,” ii, 1836, pages 222-233, 327-336, .3-58-378) ; 
“ Annals of Natural History,” i, 18-38, pages 210-216, 376-.381, 4-5-5-462 ; 
ii, 18-39, pages 44-52, 12-5-132, 205-214, 356-360; iii, pages 29-34, 
111-11-5, 244-2-50, 314-319; iv, pages 22-26, 106-111, 2-56-262.1 
He then undertook the command of another most arduous expedition, 
in which he skirted the Liverpool Plains, crossed the Peel and Uumaresq 
Rivers, made the famous discovery of Darling Downs and Peel’s 
Plains, and after making various detours, returned to the Hunter 
River, and thence by a new route to Parramatta and Sydney. He 
departed on this expedition from Segenhoe, on the Upper Hunter (a 
few miles from the present town of Scone), on the 30th April, 1827, 
• See MSS. at Kew, referring to Hortun trianonus this year, 1826. Fol. 
+ See also MSS. at Kew, lettered A. Cunningham. PI. X. Zeal. ‘ Florae insularum Xovae Zelandiae 
praecursor,” &c. 4to. Another vol. similarly lettered, consists of memoranda. 8vo. 
