The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-11-08
The Australian Barrel Tree.

The Australian Barrel Tree.
Australia, or, as it is pre- baby called on
your maps New Holland, is the largest island
Ia the world. Il lies southeast Of Asia.--~
II belongs to England, and v withiR . few years
very large number Of emigrayts, from that
| country have gone out to settle there. II
was for many years the place to which Grim.
inals were transported from Eagland fos high
crimes. Well, Australia 10 somewhat SIM
.ular country in many respects. A very
large portion OF the island--more than three
| quarters believc-has never been visited
by the settlers, and is sparsely peopied by a
rude and barbarous race of Indians. Ayciy.
| iization advances toward the center of the
| island, many strange and curious things are
discovered Among these is found the, bar.
, re-tree. The trunk Of this tree buges out
in the middle like huge cask, sometimes to
nearly three times its diameter OF the lowest
limbs. This singular characteristic gives i
its name. \ recent traveller In that couatry
saw many Of these trees generally upon the
side OF some precipitous hill, or nc the sum.
init. And this is not tho only curious, tree
| that grows in Australia. There are trees on
the island which have no branches at all, the
leaves growing thickly about the stem, ms.
kiWg II appear, at a short distance, like IN
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NAVIGATION or TIE Mississippi FORrr
YEARs AGo.--ln an article headed "Old
Scraps the Baltimore Patriot publishes the
following extracts:
% Cmcinnati Nay %, lsll.-Ship Ne'ns.--
Arrived at this place on Sunday, eyth inst,
barge Cincinnati, lIealvg commander, from
New Orleans, with a cargo OF sugar, hides,
logwood, crates, etc. She sailed from New
Orleans on the 81 of March; arrived n tho
falls on the 9th Of Nays days remained
. a, the Falls nine days and sailed from there
on the 18th inst -
This is the first rigsed vessel that ever ar
! rived a: Cincinnati from below. She is LOO
/ feet keel. lG feet beam, rigsed s!oop
fashion, and burthen 80 tons. She was
warped over the Falls by eighteen mon, in
/ half day
! June, 1914 Tho steamboat Buffalo. Of
/ 2S5 tons, has been launched at Pittsburgh.
She is designed 10 ply re ;ularly between
{ that place and Louisville once a month and
she will dras, when all her machinery is on
board, but two feet SIX inches. 1t is expect
I cd she II r.n all summer. II, however,
/ she Is found too larg', other boats less
/ bulky will be built, and she will take q sta
+ ton below the Falls in the line to New Or
leans.
The steamboat Enterprise, built At
! Bridgeport, on the Monongahct, arrived AZ
Pittsburgh ON the 5th, designed as packet
/ between that place and the Falls Of Ohio
I Her power was highly approved; she was
/ tried against the current of the Monongahe-
I la--u,ualy high and rapid for the season.
and made three niles and half an hour. r
! Efs1..riiie Nay 81, lol5.-By letter
from an officer Of the steamboat Enterprise.
Of this place, we are Informed that she MAS
at Natchtz on the Gath Of March, having.
subsequent to the lith OF January, made
from New Orleans. five trips to tho Bali1o
and one 10 the rapids Of the Rrd river =
Her last trip from New Orleans to Natchez
was made in four days, a distance Of 3l3
miles against the current Of the Mississippi.
without the nj | of sails-he rigging having
, been previously laid aside.
Juty The Enterprise worked up from
/ New Orleans to Bardsiown, nearly 500
, H., - az is-'
| I,Is calculated that the voyage by steam
boats from New Orleans TO Pittsburgh,
about twenty three hundred miles, will be
made in 80 days
How do the rivers and canals in the Old
I World dvndie te insigniicancc compared
I with this. and what n prospect OF commerce
is held out TO the immense regions Of the
West by the use Of these boats, 1t ID
thought that tae freight from New Or cans
J TO Louisville. tat the Falls Of the Ohio,
will soon be reduced to $3.50 per hundred
weight.