With the exception of the tench, the greater number of the fish in this mere haunt the sandy and stony shores.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
All that is contiguous to us is so very barren and forbidding, that it may with truth be said, 'Here nature is reversed, and if not so, she is nearly worn out'; for almost all the seed we have put in the ground has rotted, and I have no doubt it will, like the wood of this vile country, when burned or rotten turn to sand;" Captain tench, one of Ross' officers, wrote:- "The country is very wretched and totally incapable of yielding to Great Britain a return for colonising it....
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
Captain tench wrote the most readable book giving an account of the settlement, and as about half a dozen books were written by different officers of the first fleet, this, if it is all, is something to be said about him.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery