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ably more scarified than their countrymen to the 1820- 
southward, and their teeth are perfect. One of July 22 . 
our visitors had a fillet of plaited grass, whitened 
by pigment, bound round his head, and this was 
the only ornament worn by them. 
The spear was of very rude form, and seemed 
to be a branch of the mangrove-tree, made 
straight by the effect of fire : it did not appear 
that they used the throwing-stick. 
The soil of the hills of Cape Clinton is of 
good quality, but the country at the back of the 
port appears to be chiefly marshy land. Mr. 
Hunter sowed orange and lemon seeds in various 
places in the neighbourhood of the cape ; the cli- 
mate of this part is so well adapted for those 
trees, that, if it were possible to protect them from 
the fires of the natives, they would soon grow up, 
and prove a valuable refreshment to voyagers. 
Captain Flinders describes the soil at the 
northern part of the port to be 44 either sandy or 
stony, and unfit for cultivation The country 
around Mount Westall is also formed of a shal- 
low soil, but the low lands are covered with grass 
and trees, and the ravines and sides of the hills 
are covered with stunted pine-trees which were 
thought to be the araucaria cxcelsa . 
* Flinders? vol. ii. p.* 38 . 
