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Between this line and that marked ‘ White’s Hill,” the whole course of Milton 
Reach can be seen by the glint of the water. The name is comparatively modern. 
tween Mount Coot-tha and the river the scattered buildings are residences at Too- 
wong. Beyond Milton Reach, one overlooks the whole of South Brisbane, across the flat 
portion of which the Parliamentary Building and Government House can be made 
out. The elevated parts, at Hill End and Highgate Hiil, from this height look of 
less altitude than they actually are. One can scarcely realise the fact that those 
nidges are lofty enough to command, as they actually do, facing westerly, over the 
Ow-lying point of alluvial land which the next higher reach of the river can be plainly 
Seen curving round, one of the loveliest and most extensive views conceivable, with 
€ river in the foreground, forest ridges dotted with occasional white buildings in the 
middle-distance, and the bold outline of the great Main Range on the horizon. This 
View, in its nearer portions, has, owing to the similar relative position of the Highgate 
ill and the river reaches overlooked with that of fener Hill and the course of 
e Thames, a striking resemblance to that prospect so famous for its beauty wherever 
the English language is spoken. But this South Brisbane view is the finer of the 
two. From iichmcnd Hill no such majestic mountains bound the prospect, and, as 
it were, serve as frame to the picture, and at low tide the Thames exposes on cach. 
Side a broad slip of ugly mud. 
__ That bare, low point just mentioned is known as the Santa Lucia Estate. It is 
difficult now to realise that all such plateaus of alluvial land bordering the river were, 
when first seen by Europeans, covered with dense scrubs, amidst and above which 
numerous noble pine-trees reared their lofty heads. On Oxley’s chart, drawn from 
Observations made during his first boat-ascent of the river, the lower portion of the 
area now covered by South Brisbane is noted as “rich land and fine timber.” 
_ Looking beyond the St. Lucia Point, anda little to the right, in the direction: 
Sliven by the line on the dial, marked White’s Hill, two lines of high ridges are 
Visible, beyond which the view melts away to dimness. Ona knoll of the nearest of 
these ridges a building can be distinguished. That knoll is White’s Hill, deriving its 
Name from the present occupant of the building. It is often resorted to by excur- 
Slonists.. The further eminence beyond it is known as Mount Cotton, named after 
tian Cotton, who was Commandant over the Moreton Bay Establishinent from 1837 
9. 
The clustering buildings in the foreground, a little to the right of this line, are 
part of the pretty railway suburb, ‘l’aringa. 
., Mount Gravatt, indicated by the next directing line on the dial, can easily be 
identified, as it stands out boldly, and the clump of trees which crown its summit 
cannot be mistaken. This again derived its name from one of the commandants— 
leutenant Gravatt. 
The buildings which intervene between the spectator and a river reach, which 
ere is distinctly visible, are in the suburb of Indooroopilly. The fine railway bridge 
Which crosses the Brisbane River at this point, can just be perceived as a delicate tracing. 
he reach of river thus spanned, known now as Indooroopilly Reach, was by Oxley 
Named Canoe Reach, and is so set down in the copy of his chart which has been 
Preserved by the intelligent foresight of ex-Judge Barron-Field, who was a contem- 
Porary of Oxley. The tributary, of which the mouth where it joins the river is easily 
Noticed, and has cast up a bank or island of silt opposite to its junction, was also 
Named by him Canoe Creek, and is so set down in a chart of subsequent explorations 
mm 1829 by Allan Cunningham, who was in the boats with Oxley when the latter for 
€ second time ascended the river in 1824. The old name was worth preserving, if 
only because it suggests a circumstance otherwise lost sight of in consequence of the 
Sappearance of Oxley’s journal of his first exploratory trip up the Brisbane, in 1823. 
may be supposed that in that reach he saw a native canoe, a thing nowhere else 
Mentioned in connection with the Brisbane River or Moreton Bay, except by the 
Castaways Pamphlet and. Finnegan, when telling their story to Oxley’s companion, 
r. Uniacke. The northern point, where the river flows into Moreton Bay, was 
Named after this Mr. Uniacke on Cunningham’s map of 1829. Canoe Creek has, for a. 
‘Onger period than can be readily traced, been known as Oxley Creek. a. meagre and 
Msuflicient tribute to the memory or that energetic and successful explorer. 
The line which, on the dial, indicates the direction of Point Danger, points over 
Tather featureless country, and the white, dotted buildings of Kocklea, a suburb 
extending beyond South Brisbane, on the ridges between the river and the old Ipswich 
Toad, are about the only objects for the eye to rest on before the prospect melts into a 
1m succession of undulating, timbered country, amidst which, and in about the same’ 
Sourse, the South Coast stb from Brisbane to Nerang and the New South Wales 
border runs, invisible from this point of observation, Point Danger is the place 
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