. Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations. e the Volante, Brothers, Vision, Souvenir,Bad Spec, Raven, Bella Vista, William Miskin (s.), City of Melbourne (s.), Bonnie Doon, Don Juan, &c. ; also,the Palermo, Captain Henry Wyborn, afterwards of the HarboursDepartment. Brisbane is, I think, the only metropolis in the world whichcombines a Highgate Hill with a Kedron Brook. The latter, acrystal-clear, mountain-born stream, flowing from west to east, onthe north side of the city, los
. Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations. e the Volante, Brothers, Vision, Souvenir,Bad Spec, Raven, Bella Vista, William Miskin (s.), City of Melbourne (s.), Bonnie Doon, Don Juan, &c. ; also,the Palermo, Captain Henry Wyborn, afterwards of the HarboursDepartment. Brisbane is, I think, the only metropolis in the world whichcombines a Highgate Hill with a Kedron Brook. The latter, acrystal-clear, mountain-born stream, flowing from west to east, onthe north side of the city, losing itself, ultimately, in swamps, belowwhere the German missionaries, of 1838, had their settlement,Niquet, Zillman, Rode, and the rest of them. The brook was afairy-like stream. Its banks lined with the narrow leaf wattle,which blooms so beautifully, and loads the air with its nuttygorse-like scent every August ; its banks lined, also, with the narrow-leaf ti-tree, a melaleuca neriifolia, which, in early November, breaksinto bloom as gracefully as the wattle, with leaves, which, whencrushed, exhale the perfume of thyme; and flowers, with the exact. o•8 is Q -) Z hiD <y XHDOC/3 J* w «? H WW ww Pi V JUDGE LUTWYCHE. 113 odour of Grande Chartreux, and from which a rare liqueur couldbe prepared ; and there is, also, the Kennedya, covering the groundwith violet blossoms, as it creeps along the surface, in swathes of20 feet in length, and the pretty little ground orchids, and so must have been fairies and kelpies there once, but slaughter-yards and fellmongers came along, and the fairies cleared, whichwas more than the water did. David Longlands big hill stood out high on the north side, andBartleys Eildon Hill on the south of the brook, and Tom Hayes,and Tim Corbett, and old Mott, owned land on the upper part, andthereby hangeth a tale. One morning, in early 1859, I espied JudgeLutwyche, spectacles on nose. Government map in hand, takingstock of some Crown allotme
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