Out of each green heart sprang a great black spear many feet in height.
The stony knoll dropped sheer like a wall.

On the other side of it was a space the size of an amphitheatre, a large part of it spread with soft green grass, like a carpet, and the rest of the floor scattered with low shrubs and big tussocks.

Amongst them was a herb giving out a fragrance, when the feet crushed it, like that of wild thyme.

The whole air seemed filled with a blend of aromatic perfumes.
Here was a roofless room, open on one side where a break in the ti-trees showed the sandy bed of the creek, which, at first, to Lady Bridget's fancy, had the appearance of a broad shallow stream.

On this side, low rocks with ferns growing in their crannies, edged the stream.
On the opposite shore, one giant eucalyptus stood by itself and cast its shadow across.