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with Mr. Allan Cunningham, the Government Botanist ; entered 
the Brisbane River at 10 o’clock, and reached Brisbane Town at 3 
o’clock, 6th July. At 10 o’clock I proceed with Captain Logan and 
Mr. Cunningham to the southern extremity of Glenmoriston’s Range.” 
July 18. — “ Proceeded, in company with Captain Logan and Mr. 
Cunningham, to Stradbroke Island, and reached Dunwich at 1 o’clock 
in the afternoon.” 
On the 22nd July the same party proceeded to Mount Warning. 
The adventures of the party were interesting, although arduous. They 
included an e.xpedition to Mount Lindsay. Under date 11th August 
Fraser writes : — “ A strong desire to return by the first vessel to Port 
Jackson, carrying thither the largest possible collection of living plants 
from the banks of the Brisbane River, induced me to quit the party 
this morning, and to accompany Captain Logan back to Brisbane 
Town. Mr. Cunningham, with three men and two oxen, proceeded 
to the westward, in order to connect his former survey with the present 
one. From the period of my return till I embarked for Port Jackson 
I was busily employed in securing my collection of dried plants, com- 
pleting that of living ones, and laying out the rest of the New Garden ” 
(at Brisbane). Some of the trees collected by Cunningham and Fraser 
on this expedition are still in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 
Fraser adds a final note, dated Sydney, 5th February, 1829 : — 
“ Since the above was written Mr. Cunningham has returned, having 
accomplished his object of connecting his route and observations of 
last year with those made during the present. This he did without 
any difficulty, thus establishing beyond doubt the practicability of 
forming a road from the shores of Moreton Bay to the immense open 
country west of the Dividing Range.” 
Cunningham left Brisbane on 29th October, and arrived in Sydney 
on the 4th November, 1828.* See his paper on this journey in the 
Journal of the Royal Geographical Sod el y, vol. ii, page 99, already 
referred to. 
In January, 1829, he again set out for Bathurst, and this journey, 
undertaken iii an especially dry season, yielded but few seeds and 
plants. In May of this year he undertook a third voyage to Moreton 
Bay; visited the headwaters of the Bremer and Campbell’s Range, 
and returned to Sydney, laden with plants, towards the end of 
September (1829). 
On the 10th ^lay, 1830,t Cunningham proceeded to Norfolk Island, 
and a most interesting account of his expedition is given by Reward. 
He returned to Sydney on the 28th September. Reward’s record 
• See MSS. at Kew: — Queensland. Map of Brisbane River by Allan Cunningham. Part o 
Kew South Wales, interior, by the same. MS. Four detail maps, by the same. Chart of the 
Rivers Murray and Moorumbi:lgee, by the same. 
t Heward omits the year, but I believe it to be as stated. 
