Excursions and adventures in New South Wales, Volume 2

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Página 291 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 109 - Gallica differunt consuetudine. Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti. Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem : atque hoc horridiore sunt in pugna adspectu : capilloque sunt promisso atque omni parte corporis rasa, praeter caput et labrum superius.
Página 281 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Página 80 - The surface of the earth became so parched up, that the minor vegetation ceased upon it. Culinary herbs were raised with difficulty ; and crops failed even in the most favourable situations. Settlers drove their flocks and herds to distant tracts for pasture and water.
Página 80 - The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject. It continued during the two following years with unabated severity.
Página 88 - I may now add a few general remarks on the character of the country traversed in these various expeditions. It has been observed that the soil in New South Wales is good only where trap, limestone, or granite rocks occur. Sandstone however predominates so much more than all these, sis to cover about six-sevenths of the whole surface comprised within the boundaries of nineteen counties.
Página 116 - ... trees overhead chiefly engaged his attention. Deep in the hollow heart of some of the upper branches was still hidden, as it seemed, the opossum on which he was to dine. " The wind blew cold and keenly through the lofty trees on the river margin, yet that brawny savage was entirely naked. Had I been unarmed, I...
Página 89 - ... no vegetable soil is formed, for, the trees and shrubs being very inflammable, conflagrations take place so frequently and extensively in the woods during summer, as to leave very little vegetable matter to return to earth. On the highest mountains, and in places the most remote and desolate, I have always found on every dead trunk on the ground, and living tree of any magnitude also, the marks of fire ; and thus it appeared that these annual conflagrations extend to every place. In the regions...
Página 115 - ... of the prowling of a beast of prey ; every little track or impression left on the earth by the lower animals, caught his keen eye, but the trees overhead chiefly engaged his attention. Deep in the hollow heart of some of the upper branches was still hidden, as it seemed, the opossum on which he was to dine. The wind blew cold and keenly through the lofty trees on the river margin, yet that brawny savage was entirely naked. Had I been unarmed...

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