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also found one as far to the south as Shoal-water 
Bay*. 
Several kangaroos were started by our wood 
ing party, but none were taken. In the gullies, 
Mr. Cunningham reaped an excellent harvest, 
both of seeds and plants. 
Here, as well as at every other place that we 
had landed upon within the tropic, the air is 
<£ crowded’" with a species of butterfly, a great 
many of which were taken. It is doubtless the 
same species as that which Captain Cook remarks 
as so plentiful in Thirsty Sound ; he says, “ we 
found also an incredible number of butterflies, so 
that for the space of three or four acres, the air was 
so crowded with them, that millions were to be 
seen in every direction, at the same time, that 
every branch and twig were covered with others 
that were not upon the wingf The numbers 
seen by us were indeed “ incredible;” the stem 
of every grass-tree, ( xanthorrhosa ) which plant 
grows abundantly upon the hills, was covered 
with them, and on their taking wing the air 
appeared, as it were, in perfect motion. 
It is a new species, and is described by my 
friend Mr. W. S. Macleay, in the Appendix, under 
the name of euplcea hamata. 
* Flinders, vol. ii. p. 49. 
t Hawkesworth, vol. iii. p. 125. 
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1819. 
June 16. 
