Whether tho early Australian pioneer?, besides being a plucky and determined class, were a rather morbid lot, is a moot point. Their sjcographical nomenclature, at anv rote, was not always of a cheerful or liglit-h.-avkd description; for it would ba hard to find a bush district with any scencrv to speak of which does not possess a "Dead -Man's Gully," "Mount Misery/ "Hangman's Hollow," "Cut-threat Creek, "Devil's Pool," or Mine such lively and inspiring spot. A pastoral witness in the Federal Arbitration Court was endeavouring (o fix the location of his station, Glenmore, in Mr. Justice. .lliggins's mind. "It's south of Yea." he explaiiipd, "in the north-eastern district of Victoria." "Oh, 1 think I know tho whereabouts," said his Honour, "there's a Mount Dijarij pointment there; isn't it so?" "Urn—no," said the witness, rollcctivcly, and added, amid hearty laughter, "I don't know of a hill of that name, but there's a Mount jospoir noai uy place"
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 7
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