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wood appears porous & shaky and the largest trees are commonly decayed, probably from the Native's fires which are usually kindled near them.
The She Oak or beef wood is the most common tree, and grows all over the country, few of these trees grow to any considerable size, and when they do are generally unsound in the heart; boat timbers & knees might however be procured from them*; The other trees are of a small size, some resembling the box, the Cherry, the Fern etc. etc.
Vegetables
Wild celery, parsnips, Scurvy grass and a vegetable resembling samphire, and in taste like spinach were found; these together with the wild raspberry (without fruit) & flax & Indigo plants were all that seemed to claim any attention.
Animals
The traces of Kangaroos are numerous, but we were able to kill only one from a herd of 18. The Native Dog, and field rat compleat the Catalogue of Animals which came within my observation.
Birds
[scurvy grass - a plant in the cabbage family; samphire- a salty marine vegetable]