Mallee - Part 2
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The next run of good country is around Mt. Beaumont, and running away to the north-east. There is a fine stretch of it here, and it is certainly the best met with on the trip. Most of it is timbered with low mallee and dense prickly scrub, with broom bush running out from the rocks. The soil varies from light sandy loam to heavy clayey loam, but it all has a clay subsoil from six to eight inches under the surface. | The next run of good country is around Mt. Beaumont, and running away to the north-east. There is a fine stretch of it here, and it is certainly the best met with on the trip. Most of it is timbered with low mallee and dense prickly scrub, with broom bush running out from the rocks. The soil varies from light sandy loam to heavy clayey loam, but it all has a clay subsoil from six to eight inches under the surface. | ||
West of Mt. Ragged there is another area of good land, timbered with black ti-tree and very large mallee, some of the latter running up to 14 inches in diameter. The land here, although of good quality, I do not consider so suitable for cultivation, as it is of a very powdery nature, and similar to the morrell country in the eastern districts. With a heavy rainfall it would be all right, but with a light rainfall I consider it a bit doubtful. | West of Mt. Ragged there is another area of good land, timbered with black ti-tree and very large mallee, some of the latter running up to 14 inches in diameter. The land here, although of good quality, I do not consider so suitable for cultivation, as it is of a very powdery nature, and similar to the morrell country in the eastern districts. With a heavy rainfall it would be all right, but with a light rainfall I consider it a bit doubtful. | ||
| + | I did not continue the classification east of Mt. Ragged as it was all very poor, consisting of sand plain and broken limestone country with a thin coating of clay in places. | ||
| + | Where known I have adopted the local or native names of places, but there were a number of places where I had to give tentative names of places, but there were a number of places where I had to give tentative names to avoid confusion in the field book. Where known I have shown both local and native names in the field book. | ||
| + | JOHN A. HALL, Surveyor. | ||
