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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

CHAPTER 5
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Lieutenant Oxley has since (1823) discovered this to be the case, for he found a stream emptying itself into the sea, by a bar harbour close to Point Danger.

Lieutenant Oxley called it the Tweed.) Mount Warning is the summit of a range of hills 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 leagues from a ship's deck.
West-North-West from it is a much higher range but, having a more regular outline than the mount, is not of so conspicuous a character.

Several detached ranges of hills lie between Mount Warning and the beach; they are thickly covered with timber, amongst which was a pine, supposed to be the same that Captain Flinders found growing on Entrance Island in Port Bowen, which is 6 1/2 degrees more to the northward.* Mount Warning is on the same parallel as Norfolk Island, where the Araucaria excelsa grows in remarkable luxuriance and beauty and attains a very large size; if this be the same tree, it is of very stunted growth.** (*Footnote.

Flinders volume 2 page 36.) (**Footnote.


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