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confirmation of the generally established fact, that only one-tenth of the ophidian reptiles are venomous. The spot chosen by Mr. F was admirably adapted for the maintenance of stock. Around it there lay a wide range of the richest pasturage, and the Angas river afforded a never-failing supply of water. A dray road over the hills to Adelaide, from which it was distant about thirty miles, was yet wanted, to enable him to send thither his wool, or the produce of his dairy, at a small expense. “ That is an inconvenience,” said he, “ which time will remedy; but there is another and greater evil to be feared in the Special Survey Law, by the operation of which I shall probably be driven out at a moment’s notice, because I do not happen to be able to lay down four thousand pounds.” It was with regret that I subsequently ascer tained that our hospitable friend's presentiment was verified. To have enclosed some twenty acres of land, to have erected a new and comfortable dwelling-house with outbuildings, and to have fenced in and dug up a garden, would cer tainly have been an advantageous mode of investing a certain proportion of his capital. But from this he was debarred, not only by the Special Survey regulation, but also by another clause, by the terms of which the cutting of wood and the cultivation of the ground on unappro priated land were disallowed. Among the grasses of the Mount Barker district, the most luxuriant is the anthis- tiria Australis, which covers the soil in extensive tracts. In the course of the day we set fire to many acres of it, where it had become parched from over-ripening, a pro ceeding which causes the green shoots of a succeeding crop to start immediately into growth. Next to this plant,