 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...increased gradually from the edges where it was nothing, to the centre where it was an inch and a-half ; the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the whole of the work 206 ROUTE CONTINUED — HIGH GRASS. was good, and far superior to what a savage race could be supposed... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...increased gradually from the edges, where it was nothing, to the centre, where it was an inch and a half ; the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the...race could be supposed capable of executing." The head shown in the drawing at page 206 resembles that of a European ; and, if it was the work of an... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...increased gradually from the edges, where it was nothing, to the centre, where it was an inch and a half; the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the...race could be supposed capable of executing." The head shown in the drawing at page 206 resembles that of a European ; and, if it was the work of an... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...profile increased gradually from " the edges where it was nothing, to the centre where it was 1^-in. ; " the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the...and perfectly smooth, much more so than they could li have been from any other cause than long exposure to atmos" pheric influences. After having made... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1887 - 516 pages
...gradually from the edges, where it was nothing, to the centre where it was an inch and a half; the car was rather badly placed, but otherwise the whole of...savage race could be supposed capable of executing." There are numerous carvings on the headlands and flat rocks surrounding the harbour of Port-Jackson,... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1895 - 310 pages
...increased gradually from the edges, where it was nothing, to the centre, where it was an inch and a half. The ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the...savage race could be supposed capable of executing. It bore proof of antiquity, inasmuch as all the edges of the cutting were rounded and perfectly smooth,... | |
 | Australasia - 1889 - 768 pages
...increased gradually from the edges •where it was nothing to the centre where it was an inch and a half; the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the...savage race could be supposed capable of executing." Capt. Wickham, in " Notes on Depuch Island," published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 406 pages
...George Grey who first saw them in March 1838 in two caves near the Glenelg River. Believing the figures 'far superior to what a savage race could be supposed capable of. Grey sought explanations from other cultures and found parallels with European art for what he described... | |
 | 1843 - 922 pages
...increased gradually from the edges where it was nothing, to the centre where it was an inch and a half; the ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the whole of the work was good, and far beyond what a savage race could be supposed capable of executing. The only proof of antiquity that... | |
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The head was two feet in length, and sixteen inches in breadth in the broadest part ; the depth of the profile increased gradually from the edges where it was nothing, to the centre where it was an inch and a half. The ear was rather badly placed, but... 