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A few Moreton Bay fig trees have of late years been planted on the crest of 
Mount Coot-tha, and give a pleasant shade. They have been so placed as not to 
obstruct the view, and people seated on benches which have been placed under them 
an enjoy the lovely prospect, while protected from the sun and fanned by the cool 
reeze from the ocean, which in summer seldom fails to temper the heat after noon. 
few paces in front of these trees the trustees have caused to be erected a stone 
pillar, on the flat top of which is a metal disc engraved as shown below. 
. ‘The engraved lines radiating from the centre to the circumference of this plate 
direct the eye straight towards the distant objects named on it. Little more than half 
of a circle is indicated on the dial. The hills, of which Mount Coot-tha is the 
projecting end of one spur, cut off the view in other directions. Those hills are 
themselves off-shoots from the D’Aguilar Range, which forms the northern watershed 
of the Brisbane River, and westerly separates it from the heads of the Burnett; while 
they throw off, a good way to the north, another chain, trending easterly towards the 
Apatits known latterly as the Blackall Range, beyond which are upper waters of the 
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If one stands at the pillar and looks in the most northerly direction, where the 
view is unobstructed by the hills, it is just possible, in clear weather, to make out the 
Situation of Sandgate and the glimmer of the waters of Moreton Bay beyond that 
Watering-place. This is the least picturesque of all the scenes commanded from 
ount Coot-tha. The intervening tract offers no prominent features for the eye: to 
Well upon. It is, in fact, a stretch of undulating forest country, with no marked 
Characteristics. Yet, when one is familiar with details of early settlement in the 
oreton Bay district, there is a disposition to dwell on this rather monotonous scene 
Or a moment or two. ‘Without being able to fix upon the exact spot, from this 
Stance, one seeks to distinguish the locality, now known as Nundah, a not very 
Populous outlying suburb on the Brisbane-Sandgate railway. It was formerly known 
88 German Station. Here a missionary party of Germans, after being compelled by 
the hostility of the aborigines to abandon the place of their first settlement at 
Humpybong (Redcliffe), on the shore of Moreton Bay, established a mission station, 
