Excerpt from The Story of Burke and Wills: With Sketches and EssaysIt IS most probably a series of plains, instead of one vast desert, and is not all equally strewn with stones or destitute of vegetation. The stones, again, are not in every place of equal size. They are very small in some places, and form almost boulders in others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.