[20] See Professor Buckland’s Bridgewater Treatise, vol. i. Introduction, pp. 1, 2.
[21] See Mitchell’s Three Expeditions in Australia, vol. ii. p. 13.
[22] See Oxley’s Journal, pp. 103, 244.
[23] Another lake, called Walljeers, at no very great distance from this, was found, with its whole expanse of about four miles in circumference, entirely covered with a sweet and fragrant plant, somewhat like clover, and eaten by the natives. Exactly resembling new-made hay in the perfume which it gives out even when in the freshest state of verdure, it was indeed “sweet to sense and lovely to the eye” in the heart of a desert country.
[24] See Sturt’s Expeditions in Australia, vol. i. Dedication, p. 4.
[25] Sturt’s Expeditions in Australia, vol. ii. pp. 109, 110.
[26] The dimensions given in Captain Sturt’s map. The South-Australian Almanac states it to be sixty miles long, and varying in width from ten to forty miles.
[27] For the account of this voyage, see Sturt’s Expeditions in Australia, vol. ii. pp. 72-221.
[28] These particulars are taken from the South-Australian Almanac for 1841, pp. 68-73.
[29] See Wentworth’s Australasia, vol. i. p. 3.