A sudden rocky rise, clothed with native cypress (Exocarpus--Oh my botanical readers!), honeysuckle (Banksia), she-oak (Casuarina), and here and there a stunted gum.

Cape Chatham began to show grander and nearer, topping all; and soon they saw the broad belt of brown sandy heath that lay along the shore.
"Here," said the Doctor, riding up, "we leave the last limit of the lava streams from Mirngish and the Organ-hill.

Now, immediately you shall see how we pass from the richly-grassed volcanic plains, into the barren sandstone heaths; from a productive pasture land into a useless flower-garden.

Nature here is economical, as she always is: she makes her choicest ornamental efforts on spots otherwise useless.

You will see a greater variety of vegetation on one acre of your sandy heath than on two square miles of the thickly-grassed country we have been passing over." It was as he said.