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 Gooav.] NATURAL HISTORY. 73 coast, through a country not more than three feet in general elevation above high-water mark i the hanks being low and muddy, and thickly wooded: And this description is pliesMe also to the Alligator Rivers on the south=east of Van Diemen's Gulf, and to the surrounding country, The out- line of the Wellington Hills, however, on the mainland between the Liverpool and Alligator Rivers, is jagged and irregular; this range being thus remarkably eontrested with the flat summits which appear to be very numerous on the north=western coast, The specimens from Goalburn Islands consist of reddish sand-stone, not to be distinguished from that which occurs beneath the coal formation in England. On the west of these islands the coast is more broken, and the outline is irre- gular: but the elevation is inconsiderable; the general height in Cobour Peninsula not being above oue hundred end fifty feet above the sea, and that of the hills not more than from three to four hundred feet. On this part of the coast, several hills are remarkable for the flatness of their tops; and the geeend outline of many of the islands, as seen ou the horizon, is very striking and pe- culiar. Thus Mount Bedwell and Mount Roe, ou the south of Cobourg Peninsula; Luxmoore Head, at the west end of Mel- ville Island; the Berthelemy Hills, south ofCepe FoFd; Mount Goodwin, south of Port Keats; Mount Cockburn, and several of the hills adjacent to Cambridge Gulf,--tbe. names g4ven to which during the Droress of the SUFvey sufficiently indi- cate their form, as Aote-'oo%, BerthA, '-op, and $re-fop /ib;--Mount Casuarine, about forty miles noFth-west of Cambridge Gulf; a hill near Cape Volteire;m Steep-Head, Port Warrender;---and several of the islands o that port, York Sound, and Prince Rege,it's River ;--Cape Cuvier, about latitude 24�nd, still further south, the whole of Moresby's flat-topped Range,--are all distinguished

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