clay-pan

At fourteen miles changed the bearing to 135 degrees to the head of a swamp, two miles and a half, found it dry, a large clay-pan about three miles in circumference.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Changed my course to the north-east to examine a white clay-pan that I thought might contain some fresh water.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

At 11 a.m. the horses were brought back from the clay-pan.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

At fourteen and a half miles we found a clay-pan of water, with beautiful green feed for the horses.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

In rainy weather this country will not retain the water on the surface, and we have not so much as seen a clay-pan of the smallest dimensions.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Finke; at five p.m. met with some water in a clay-pan, and camped.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

I have sent the horses four miles back to a large clay-pan that we saw yesterday, to remain there to-night and in the morning to return.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Not being satisfied with my hurried view of the salt clay-pan that I visited on the

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Next day followed the same course and camped at thirty miles on a large clay-pan.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Then crossing a plain where some grass grew as well as spinifex, we came again into sand-ridges, then another plain, then a large, dry clay-pan West of Mount Stewart, then more ridges up to the foot of Mount Romilly.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885