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  • Due West of the Pillar, distant two and a half miles, situated in a scrub-covered rocky gorge, is a fair-sized rockhole.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Godfrey had unsuccessfully explored the neighbouring hills, while Breaden and Charlie cleaned out the rockhole with like result.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • We had not gone far before our hopes were again raised, and again dashed, by coming on rocky ground and presently on another rockhole -- quite dry!

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • We wasted the rest of the day in fruitless search; Nature seemed to have made no effort whatever to form any such thing as a rockhole, and we saw no place where the natives had ever even dug.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

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