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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER VI
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The poplar-gum, the bloodwood, the melaleuca of Mt.

Stewart, the Moreton Bay ash, the little Severn tree, and a second species of the same genus with smooth leaves, were growing on the same soil.

The grasses were very various, particularly in the hollows: and the fine bearded grass of the Isaacs grew from nine to twelve feet in height.

Charley brought me a branch of a Cassia with a thyrse of showy yellow blossoms, which he said he had plucked from a shrub about fifteen feet high.
We encamped about two miles from the foot of a mountain bearing about N.E.from us; I called it Mount McConnel, after Fred.

McConnel, Esq., who had most kindly contributed to my expedition.


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