 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 736 pages
...Murray, at its entrance, cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings,...distance of the river from the base of the hills. It is to be remarked, that the bottom of the valley is extremely level, and extensively covered with... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Australia - 1836 - 406 pages
...Murray, at its entrance, cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings,...distance of the river from the base of the hills. It is to be remarked, that the bottom of the valley is extremely level, and extensively covered with... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - New South Wales - 1837 - 1052 pages
...says Captain Sturt, " cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings...distance of the river from the base of the hills. It is to be remarked that the bottom of the valley is extremely level, and extensively covered with... | |
 | Henry Watson - South Australia - 1838 - 44 pages
...advantage, then Nature had denn, in planting and disposing tho various groups of trees. The river docs not occupy the centre of the valley, but inclines...acres be practically available, Captain Sturt would nol hesitate to pronounce it one of the richest and most highly-favoured spots on the face of the earth.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - South Australia - 1838 - 280 pages
...Murray, at its entrance, cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings,...distance of the river from the base of the hills. It is to be remarked, that the bottom of the valley is extremely level, and extensively covered with... | |
 | Esq. Samuel Butler - Australia - 1839 - 272 pages
...Murray, at its entrance, cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings,...distance of the river from the base of the hills. It is to be remarked, that the bottom of the valley is extremely level, and extensively covered with... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Australia - 1875 - 492 pages
...says Captain Sturt, " cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings;...distance of the river from the base of the hills." And again, " If the valley of the Murray is not subject to flood, it has only recently gained a height... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Australia - 1875 - 502 pages
...says Captain Start, " cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to its windings;...distance of the river from the base of the hills." And again, " If the valley of the Murray is not subject to flood, it has only recently gained a height... | |
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Of the western shore of Yorke's Peninsula nothing is known, but Captain Sturt says, ' The valley of the Murray, at its entrance, cannot be less than four miles in breadth. The river does not occupy the centre, but inclines to either side, according to... 