 | South Australian Land Company - Great Britain - 1831 - 50 pages
...and close. In the other places, short close grass was found between the coarse high patches. Whilst crossing the Island we saw plenty of parrots and wild pigeons, and black swans on the lagoons. PRODUCTIONS. With the exception of salt, the timber appears the principal production we have observed... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 736 pages
...the grass very high and coarse in patches, but where the greatest number of kangaroos and emus were found, the grass was short and close. In the other...swans on the lagoons. ' With the exception of salt, the timber appears the principal production we have observed of this place. The trees are the same... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Australia - 1836 - 436 pages
...hundreds of acres without a tree. I calculated, by comparison with New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, there might be on this plain, on the average,...The trees are the same as at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ; some run exceedingly high, and large in circumference, and may be converted into every... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - South Australia - 1838 - 280 pages
...the grass very high and coarse in patches, but where the greatest number of kangaroos and emus were found, the grass was short and close. In the other...and wild pigeons, and black swans on the lagoons. PRODUCTIONS. With the exception of salt, the timber appears the principal production we have observed... | |
 | Robert Stewart (A.M.) - Australasia - 1853 - 774 pages
...difficulty or trouble. As we crossed the islund, I looked to the right and left, and saw everywhere the same open plains, now and then changed in appearance...lagoons. " With the exception of salt, timber appears to be the principal production, we have observed, of this place. The trees are the same as at New South... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1921 - 694 pages
...but where the greatest number of kangaroos and emus were found the grass was short and close. r In other places close short grass was found between the...and wild pigeons, and black swans on the lagoons. " Productions. — With the exception of salt, the timber appears the principal production we have... | |
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With the exception of salt, timber appears the principal production we have observed of this place. The trees are the same as at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ; some run exceedingly high, and large in circumference, and may be converted into every... 