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Tasmania aromatica 7 or Pepper Tree, 
Coprosma nitida . 
■■■- hirtella. 
Fagus Cunninghamii. 
Gaultheria hispida . 
Pimelea incana. 
Eurybia sp. 
Cyathoides sp. 
My next ascent of the Western Range was likewise 
from Connorville, hut we kept more to the westward; 
our party consisting of Mr. Wm. O’Connor and myself, 
and one servant. We did not walk more than nine or ten 
miles, for the heat of the weather and weight of our 
knapsacks rendered the ascent very laborious. As usual, 
in ascending the elevations in this Colony, we had to pass 
over fragments of rock, and were glad to encamp for the 
night at a spring. Our dormitory was simply a blanket 
stretched over a ridge-pole, and secured to the ground, 
with some branches of trees at the head. Around was 
forest consisting of Eucalypti , Banksia , and Acacia ?: of 
the last there are two kinds, the black or green, and sil¬ 
ver, the first of which flowers in December, the last in 
September. Of the Eucalypti there are nearly forty 
species, and they flower in different months all the year 
through. Bees appear very partial to their flowers, and 
the flavour of the blue gum ( E . globulus) may often be 
detected in the honey. This tree does not grow naturally 
on the north side of the Island: nor indeed beyond Spring 
Hill, forty miles north of Hobart; but occurs on Flinders* 
Islands, and at Cape Otway in New Holland. The fol¬ 
lowing day we resumed our walk through the same de¬ 
scription of forest, and a few miles from our resting-place 
came to a lake about a mile in length, where we break¬ 
fasted off a kangaroo that we shot: from hence we reached 
a Hut occupied by two men employed to look after cattle 
