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The Queensland Inatuealist. 
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valley of Cedar Creek. At the Cathedral Falls, too, there 
is a mass of tuff showing near the first fall, but this rock 
is rarely found. 
Where the streams have cut through the basalt, the 
southern bank is always the lower, and has suffered most 
from denudation. This is the case at St. Bernard’s Falls, 
where the northern bank of Guanable Creek is of precipitous 
basalt, while the southern bank is lower, more rounded, 
and of a baked shale or porceilanite, showing the layers, 
wh'ch are wavy and twisted to a curious degree. Similarly 
at the Cedar Creek Falls the northern bank of Cedar Creek 
is of precipitous basalt, while the southern is much lower, 
more rounded, and formed of sandstone or conglomerate. 
V. The Vegetation. 
The scrubs are now beginning to fall before the axe 
of the settler, hitherto kept out by the difficulty of market- 
ing his goods along the wretched and precipitious roads. 
Citrus fruits do remarkably w^ell, as do also plums, black- 
berries. and other European fruits. The purple clover 
grows as healthily here as in Xew Zealand. But llie great 
industry of the mountain will be dairying, for which it is 
extremely well suited. The Jeri.ey cattle especially do 
well on its summit. 
In the open forest country, on the basaltic soil, besides 
tallow -woods, stringy-bark, blood- wood and oak, the 
most numerous and striking tree is Eucalyptus botryoides, 
the flooded gum, so common in the scrubs along the North 
Coast Line, yet flourishing here, at a height of 2,000 feet 
above the sea, as if it were near Palinwmods at nearly sea- 
level. The pale French-grey shining butts of this tree 
are beautiful, either lighted by sun or moon. 
In forest country on the eastern slopes of the mountain, 
the commonest tree has the appearance of a wattle, with 
very light green leaves. This, in season, is found to be 
covered wdth yellow^ pea-flow'ers, proving it to be a Daviesia, 
whose allies are mostly spin}' shrubs. 
In the scrub, palms are numerous, especially the 
Pickabeen Palm, seen so commonly from the train on the 
North Coast Line. The lawyer canes are climbing palms, 
noted for their fine sprays, armed wdth spines like fish- 
hooks. as are also the fruiting clusters. 
Eugenias, known as scrub cherries and rose apples, 
are numerous, and their fruits are a welcome sight after 
toiling up the slopes, from their sweet, slightly acid pulp. 
Vines of all kinds knit the vegetation into a tangled 
mass. Many of these are the stems of grape vines, known 
to bushmen as Water-vines, because a section of the stem, 
upended in a pint-pot, gives a drink of sap as clear and 
tasteless as good water. 
