1875. John Forrest, `Explorations in Australia,' p. 260:
"We travelled down the road for about thirty-three miles over stony plains; many clay-pans with water but no feed."
1896. Baldwin Spencer, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,' Narrative, vol. i. p. 17:
"One of the most striking features of the central area and especially amongst the loamy plains and sandhills, is the number of clay-pans. These are shallow depressions, with no outlet, varying in length from a few yards to half a mile, where the surface is covered with a thin clayey material, which seems to prevent the water from sinking as rapidly as it does in other parts."
<hw>Clean-skins</hw>, or <hw>Clear-skins</hw>, <i>n</i>. unbranded cattle or horses.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 206:
"These clean-skins, as they are often called, to distinguish them from the branded cattle."
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xv. p. 109:
"Strangers and pilgrims, calves and clear-skins, are separated at the same time."
1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 82: