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Then you found yourself in a long, winding avenue, lined with tall pine-trees, beyond which you could catch glimpses, between the trunks of a kind of wilderness-garden, where climbing roses and flowering shrubs and gum-trees and bush plants, and a host of pleasant, friendly, common flowers grew all together in a very delightful fashion.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The house stood on a gentle rise, and in front the trees had been thinned so that across the smooth lawn you looked over stretching paddocks, dotted with gum-trees, and broken by the silver gleam of a reed-fringed lagoon.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The plains are studded with lines of green gum-trees, and the cabbage palms are numerous, which give them a very pretty park-like appearance.
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I also observed on one of the gum-trees, marks similar to those which I saw on the Finke, broad arrows and a wavy line round the tree.
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At ten miles we crossed the open plain, with stunted gum-trees and long grass.
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The country in many places along the creek has large grassy plains with mulga, gum-trees, and scrub, not too thick to get easily through.
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Crossed a spur of the range running south, and can see a nice-looking creek with gum-trees.
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A short time before that, another horse got into a very deep and rapid channel of the river, the top of the banks projecting so much that he could not get out, and the gum-trees having fallen across both above and below him, he was completely fixed.
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On this last course we travelled three miles, through a dense thicket of hedge-tree, when I observed some large gum-trees bearing 320 degrees, and decided to examine them before leaving the rise.
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The drift stuff was upwards of thirteen feet high in the gum-trees.
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