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of plants from the Cape of Good Hope, or from Ceylor t 
or India. These were described by the late Dr. Baird, 
Our species is distinct, and is .remarkable in having a 
peculiar smell like tar. 
From the eastern boundary of the Brandy Creek.lands 
to Shady Creek—four miles—we found rather thin loamy 
soils, with a sparse growth of wire-grass, the timber being 
principally stunted peppermint and messmate. 
Crossing Shady Creek and ascending the spur towards 
Shady Creek Hotel, and thence thirteen miles to the Moe 
at Westbury, we saw no grass fit for stock. The timber is 
messmate and peppermint, of no value for conversion. 
The road for this distance crosses the heads of numerous 
small creeks and gullies, falling into the River La Trobe, 
which lies on the left at a distance of a mile or a mile and 
a half. 
At the Moe Swamp we found growing on the flats 
small patches of good gum and liglitwood. At the point 
where the road crosses the neck of the Moe Swamp a 
bridge is being erected, which, when completed, will 
greatly lessen the difficulties of this part of the road. 
From Westbury, after crossing the Narracan Creek 
and the Shady Creek, and passing over the Haunted Hill, 
we reached the Morwell Iliver at Morwell. In this tract, 
and that thence to the boundary of the surveyed lands in 
the parish of Traralgon, we noted soils of the like kind 
to those immediately west of the Moe, supporting not very 
good grass, and trees chiefly of the messmate and pepper¬ 
mint kind. 
Two miles to the south of the main road at Morwell, 
and on the east bank of the river, settlement to a con. 
siderable extent has taken place, but with what results as 
regards cultivation we could not ascertain. 
