Author: Batman, John,
Title: Journal, manuscript
Date: 10 May-11 June 1835.
Accession Number: MS13181
Transcript Number: pp0016-035-0
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Kangaroo Grass, about 10
Inches high and as green as a
field of wheat, we then went in
another direction for about
4 or 5 miles over verry good sheep
Land gentle rises, with wattle
and oak, with stunted Gum
none or verry little of this timber
would split - we made the Bay
again and crossed before we
came to it a beautifull plain
about 3 to 400 Acres of as rich
Land as I ever saw with scarce
a tree upon it - the Grass above
our ancles, we saw several
forest Kangaroo, but our Dogs
being on ship board were
stiff and could not fetch
any saw several Native Huts
and the marks on one tree
where the Natives had been
yesterday - we then came down
the Bay, which consists of
excellent Land rich black

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