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which, as also in all other countries, it has not been re- 
marked beyond the tropics. 
The palms of Terra Australis, which (as previously ob- 
served) are remarkably limited on the north-western shores, 
have a very considerable diffusion on the North and East 
Coasts, and have even a more general dispersion on the 
latter shores, than has been allowed them formerly. Sea- 
forthia is frequent in dense forests on the East Coast, 
almost to latitude 35° South, where it exhibits all the tropi- 
cal habits assumed on the northern shores, although the 
difference of climate, and consequent temperature, are abun- 
dantly obvious. On the other hand, a palm of very robust 
growth, with large flabelliform fronds, and spinous foot- 
stalks, was remarked at the head of Liverpool River, in 
latitude 12° South, on the North Coast; and although 
without fructification, no doubt existed of its being the 
Corypha australis, hitherto limited to the shores and vicinity 
of Port Jackson. ^ 
Araucaria excelsa. — The Norfolk Island pine, which, 
without doubt, must have been particularly noticed by the 
celebrated circumnavigator Captain Cook, in 1770, on the 
discovery of New South Wales, although the circumstance 
of the very general existence of a pine upon the islands and 
main of that coast, north of the Percy Isles, does not appear 
to be mentioned in the accounts of that particular voyage, 
has a far more extensive range upon that shore than has 
been hitherto understood. During the Mermaid’s voyages, 
Araucaria was observed in the vicinity of Mount Warning, in 
New South Wales, which lies in the parallel of Norfolk 
Island, (29° South) ; thence northerly it was very sparingly 
seen towards the tropic, within which, however, as far as 
latitude 14°, it is very abundant, forming upon several 
