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which, if there be one, probably communicates 
with the sea nearer to Point Danger*. 
Mount Warning is the summit of a range of 
hills, which is either distinct from others near it, 
or separated from them by deep ravines. It is 
very high, and may be seen twenty-eight leagues 
from a ship’s deck. W.N.W. from it is a much 
higher range but, having a more regular outline 
than the mount, is not of so conspicuous a cha- 
racter. Several detached ranges of hills lie be- 
tween Mount Warning and the beach; they are 
thickly covered with timber, amongst which was 
a pine, supposed to be the same that Captain 
Flinders found growing on Entrance Island in 
Port Bowen, which is 6|° more to the north- 
ward f. Mount Warning is on the same pa- 
rallel as Norfolk Island, where the araucaria 
excelsa grows in remarkable luxuriance and 
beauty, and attains a very large size ; if this be 
the same tree, it is of very stunted growth J. 
The country in the vicinity of Mount Warning 
* Lieut. Oxley has since (1823) discovered this to be the case, for 
he found a stream emptying' itself into the sea, by a bar harbour 
close to Point Dang-er. Lieutenant Oxley called it the “ Tweed.” 
t Flinders, vol. ii. p. 36. 
$ Lieutenant Oxley, in his late expedition to Moreton Bay (1823), 
found reason to doubt whether the pine that he found in the Bris- 
bane River was the araucaria excelsa of Norfolk Island. 
1819. 
May 23. 
