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Australia Twice Traversed
The Romance of Exploration

CHAPTER 1
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Mr.Carmichael went to the top of the low bluff, and informed me of the existence of low ridges, bounding the horizon in every direction except to the south-south-east, and that the intervening country appeared to be composed of sandhills, with casuarinas, or mulga scrubs.
In Baron von Mueller's extraordinary work on Select Extra-tropical Plants, with indications of their native countries, and some of their uses, these remarks occur:--"Acacia aneura, Ferd.v.Mueller.

Arid desert--interior of extra tropic Australia.

A tree never more than twenty-five feet high.

The principal 'mulga' tree.

Mr.S.Dixon praises it particularly as valuable for fodder of pasture animals; hence it might locally serve for ensilage.


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