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rocks of Brandy Creek. For three miles and a half the 
same kinds of timber were seen, but the soil, perhaps, is 
not so good, and the grasses are rather thin. 
Throughout this part of the route the view is circum¬ 
scribed. 
For a distance of eight miles from the part just de¬ 
scribed the road over the rich chocolate soil showed 
marks everywhere of difficulties met and overcome by 
travellers in wet weather—holes where wheels had been 
buried to the axle, and deep ruts partly filled with dust. 
The area of the tract occupied by older volcanic rocks in 
this locality is 53,760 acres. It extends as far north as 
to embrace the old fern-tree gullies, and southwards to 
McDonald’s track, including the heads of the Moe and 
Lang-lang rivers. It is a jungle in which the traveller 
can make new tracks only with axe and bill-hook. The 
timber chiefly noted by us was wliite-gum on the ridges, 
and blackbutt (in other localities called mountain ash) 
with fine fern-trees in the gullies. The scrub seemed to 
be principally hazel, musk, wattle, and dogwood. 
The extraordinary richness of the vegetation in this 
area caused us to make application to the Government 
Botanist for information respecting the more prominent 
trees and shrubs which completely cover these rich soils, 
and, excluding the smaller plants, amongst which are 
some rare genera and species. The list is as follows: — 
Larger trees .—Called vernacularly “ Whitegum-trees.” Eucalyp¬ 
tus coriacea, E. ainygdalina (var. regnans), E. Stuartiana. 
“ Blucgura-tree.” Eucalyptus globulus. 
“ Spotted gum-tree.” Eucalyptus goniocalyx (sometimes passing as 
Bluegum-tree.) 
“ Redgum-tree.” Eucalyptus rostrata, also more rarely E. tereti- 
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corms. 
