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cosms o? SUS'?SL?S. 179 which, if there be one, probably communicates with the sea nearer to Point DangerS. Mount Warning is the s?mmit of a range of hi!Js, which is either distinct from others near it, or separated from them by deep ravines. It is very high, and may be seen twenty-eight leasues from a ship's deck. W.N.W. from it is a much higher range but, having a more re?la? outline than the mount, is not of so conspimous a cha- racter. Several detached ranges of hi]Is lie be- tween Mount Warning and the beach; they are thickly covered with timber, amongst which was a pine, supposed to ]Do the 8axne thai Capt._in Flinders found growing on Entrance Island in Port Bowen, which is 6? �e to the north- wardS. Mount Warning is on the same pa. railel as Norfolk Island, where the ? grows in remarkable luxuriance and beauty, and attains a ver? large size; if this be the same tree, it is of very stunted growthS. The country in the vicinity of Mount Warning

  • Lieut. Oxley ires since (18?3) discove? this to be the ca? for

he found a stream emptying itself into the sea, by a bar imrbour clo?e to Point Danger. Lieutenant Oxley called it the" Tweed." ?; Lieutenant Oxley, in hi? late erl?dition to Moreton Ba?, found reason to doubt whether the pine that he founa in the bane River was the ?,?,?an? emcel? ? Ne*?olk Island. Digitized by Goggle