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vegetation is to that about Sydney or any other place we have ever before seen upon the sloping land in front of the high & bold. I observd there several Cabbage Trees nearly in resemblance a Plantane [Plantain] but yet a true Cabbage. And a Fern which I can no otherwise describe than by calling it a Cabbage Tree Fern, for it is to distant appearance a Cabbage, but upon closer inspection the leaves are found to be Fern & beautiful Fern. There were many Trees that I am certain have never yet been known in this Country, one, the most remarkably new was about 12 feet in height, its leaves large broad hairy or rather woolly, I think their shape would be called cordate & the smaller branches of it coverd most thickly with long sharp prickles, well I remember them for in the blindness of my eyes I seizd one of the branches & was handsomely repaid for my hasty curiosity by a handful of them.