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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 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
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