Box 5/Item 21: Notebook re. Aboriginal languages, sign language, songs and tribes, undated - Page 35

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Thursday
Leave Adelaide 10.15 am Special Mount Lofty
Flinders discovery, height mammaliferous drift(?) Diprotodon former height of ranges (?). Tertiary. Rich loams (?) Hills gradually more rounded. Archaean. Alluvial equivalent to mammoth of old country.
Iravertive (?) houses. Soil thinner cover over slate due to increase aridity as you make southwards, lighter colour of clay, marly. Even north of Saddlesworth.
Friday
Bar Lake Eyre 30.11 Therm. 50.1 F. 9 a .m.
6
At Slow Creek (Swallow Creek written above) mob 1000 cattle Drover Grainger from Beetaloo Station, N.T.
East of Newcastle Waters, on route Oodnadatta

 

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