Cable gum, these varieties all seen in the interior, not common at Perth : Balwungar : Eucalyptus : Glaucus-leaved. Honeysuckle : Mang-ghoyte : Banksia : Large flowering cones containing honey. Honeysuckle : Be-al-wra : Banksia : Large flowering cones containing honey. Black wattle : Kile-yung : Acacia : Indication of good soil--produces gum. Broom or Stinkwood : Cab-boor : - : Light sandy loam. Holly : Tool-gan : Hakea : Sandy soil--produces gum. Cabbage tree : Mote yar : Nuytsia floribella : Gum in abundance. Beef tree or the oak : - : Casuarina. Palm tree : Djir-jy or jirjy : Zamia media, gl. : Red fruit, nut, called baio, ripe in March, is considered a delicacy by the natives. Raspberry jam : Maug-art : Acacia : Sweet scented--grows on good gruund. Raspberry jam : Minnung : Acacia : Gum very abundant. Blackboy : Balga : Zantha hast : Gum on the spear--resin on the trunk. York nut : Madda : - : Smells like sandalwood. Red apple : Quonni : - : Affects salt grounds. Swamp oak : Yeymbac : - : Name applies rather to the paper-like bark--used to hold water, to cover houses, etc. Rough-topped blackboy : Barro : Zantha : Resin makes a powerful cement. Native yam : Werrang : - : Said to grow to a large size to the North. Native potato : Tubuc : Orchis. Native turnip : Canno. New Zealand flax : - : Phormium tenax : This grows pretty abnndantly, I forget the native name. (*Footnote. The letter a is sounded broad and full as in Father.) SAFETY OF GAGE ROADS. The result of our soundings between Rottnest Island and the main, showed that a bank extended out to the north-east, from the foul ground off the Stragglers, sufficiently to check, in some measure, the vast body of water rolling in from the north-west; and thereby adding to the safety of Gage Roads, provided vessels anchor in the proper berth, which is in seven or eight fathoms, on sandy mud, about a mile from the gaol, bearing East by North. A quarter of a mile nearer the shore the bottom shoals rapidly to four and three fathoms, on rocky ground slightly coated with sand. It is therefore not likely a ship, well found, can drag her anchor up a bank so steep as that inclination in the bottom forms. The wrecks that have occurred in this anchorage may be traced to vessels not selecting a proper berth. From their desire to be near the shore they get into the shoal rocky ground; a breeze comes on when they are in no way prepared, in the midst of discharging cargo; and in some cases, before a second anchor can be let go, the ship is driven on shore. Thus, through the want of judgment exhibited by a few individuals, has a whole community suffered in the manner I have alluded to, when speaking of the loss of the Orontes at Port Essington.* (*Footnote. See volume 1.) CHAPTER 2.5.