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 APPENDIX. which, as also in all other countries, it has not been re- marked beyond the tropics. The palms of Terra Australia, which (as previously ob- served) are remarkably limited on the north-western shores, have a very considerable diffusion on the North and East; Coasts, and have even a more general dispersion on the latter shores, than has been allowed them formerly. Sea- forthia is frequent in dense forests on the East Coast, almost to latitude 35 �th, where it exhibits all the tropi- cal habits assumed on the northern shores, although the difference of climate, and consequent temperature, are abun- dandy obvious. On the other hand, a palm of very robust. growth, with large flabelliform fronds, and spineus foot- stalks, was remarked at the head of Liverpool River, in latitude .12 �th, on the North Coast; and althougtx without frnctification, no doubt existed of its bein the Corypha australia, hitherto limited to the shores and vicinity of Port Jackson. AaAuc.tm zxcE,.sa.--The Norfolk Island pine, which, without doubt, must have been particularly noticed by the celebrated cireumnavigator Captain Cook, in 1770, on the discovery of New South Wales, although the circumstance of the very general existence of a pine upon the islands and main of that coast, north of the Percy Isles, does not appear to be mentioned in the accounts of that particular voyage, has a far more extensive range upon that shore than has been hitherto understood. During the Mermaid's voyages, Araucaria was observed in the vicinity of Mount Warning, in New South Wales, which lies in the parallel of Norfolk Island, (29 �th); thence northerly it was very sparingly seen towards the tropic, withlu which, however, as far as latitude 14 � is very abundant, forming upon several

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