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Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia

CHAPTER III
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From the extremity of the plain, Mount Harris bore, by compass, S.W.by W.; Mount Foster due west.

The scrub through which we were penetrating, at length became so dense, that we found it impossible to travel in a direct line through it, and frequent ridges of cypresses growing closely together, turned us repeatedly from our course.

The country at length became clearer, and we travelled over open forest of box, casuarina, and cypresses, on a sandy soil; the first predominating.

For about two miles before we made the creek, the country was not heavily timbered, the acacia pendula succeeding the larger trees.

The ground had a good covering of grass upon it, and there were few of the salsolaceous plants, so abundant on the western plains, to be found.


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