1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales, p. 97:
"Rhinobatus granulatus or shovel-nose, which is properly speaking a Ray, is called here the blind or sand shark, though, as Mr. Hill remarks, it is not blind. He says `that it attains the length of from 6 to 7 feet, and is also harmless, armed only with teeth resembling small white beads secured closely upon a cord; it however can see tolerably well, and searches on sandy patches for crustaceae and small shell fish.'"
1886. J. Douglas-Ogilby, `Catalogue of the Fishes of New South Wales,' p. 5:
"Rhinobatus Granulatus ... I have not seen a New South Wales example of this fish, which appears to have been confounded with the following by writers on the Australian fauna.
Rhinobatus Bongainvillei, Muell and Heule, Habitat Port Jackson. Shovel-nosed Ray of Sydney fishermen."
, doing the, v. lounging in the fashionable promenade. In Melbourne, it is Collins Street, between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets. In Sydney, "The Block"
is that portion of the city bounded by King, George, Hunter, and Pitt Streets. It is now really two blocks, but was all in one till the Government purchased the land for the present Post Office, and then opened a new street from George to Pitt Street. Since then the Government, having purchased more land, has made the street much wider, and it is now called Martin's Place.
1869. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic Philosopher,' (in an Essay on `Doing the Block') (reprint), p. 13:
"If our Victorian youth showed their appreciation for domestic virtues, Victorian womanhood would `do the Block' less frequently."
1872. `Glimpses of Life in Victoria by a Resident,' p. 349:
"A certain portion of Collins street, lined by the best drapers' and jewellers' shops, with here and there a bank or private office intervening, is known as `the Block,' and is the daily resort of the belles and beaux... ."
1875. R. and F. Hill, `What We Saw in Australia,' p. 267:
"To `do the block' corresponds in Melbourne to driving in Hyde Park."
1876. Wm. Brackley Wildey, `Australasia and the Oceanic Region,'
p. 234:
"The streets are thronged with handsome women, veritable denizens of the soil, fashionably and really tastefully attired, `doing the block,' patrolling Collins-street, or gracefully reclining in carriages... ."
1890. Tasma, `In her Earliest Youth,' p. 126:
"You just do as I tell you, and we'll go straight off to town and `do the block.'"
1894. `The Herald' (Melbourne), Oct. 6, p. 6, col. 1:
"But the people doing the block this morning look very nice."
1896. `The Argus,' July 17, p. 4. col. 7:
" We may slacken pace a little now and again, just as the busy man, who generally walks quickly, has to go slowly in the crowd on the Block."
(2) Term in mining, fully explained in `The Miner's Right,'
chapters vii. and viii.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `The Miner's Right,' p. 86:
"I declare the Liberator Lead to be `on the block.'"
`Extract from Mining Regulation 22' (Ibid. p. 77):
"The ground shall be open for taking up claims in the block form."
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pl. 63:
"Myzomela sanguinolenta, Sanguineous Honey-eater.
Blood-bird of the Colonists of New South Wales."
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 37:
"Another description of lizard is here vulgarly called the `bloodsucker.' "
1890. F. McCoy, `Prodromus of the Natural History of Victoria,'
Dec. 12, pl. cxi.:
"Why the popular name of `Bloodsucker' should be so universally given to this harmless creature by the Colonists (except on the locus a non lucendo principle) I cannot conceive."
1890. A. H. S. Lucas, `Handbook of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science,' Melbourne, p. 70:
"Two species of `blood sucker' so absurdly designated."
1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of Linnaean Society,' vol. xv. p. 271:
"The natives tell me it breeds in the winter in Mun'ning-trees or Blood-trees of the colonists (a species of Eucalyptus)."
1847. L.Leichhardt,' Overland Expedition,' p. 292:
"The bergue was covered with fine bloodwood trees, stringy-bark, and box."
1892. A. J. North, `Proceedings of Linnaean Society,' New South Wales, vol. vii. series 2, p. 396:
"I traced her to a termite nest in a bloodwood tree (Eucalyptus corymbosa)."
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' 448:
"It [E. eximia] is called `bloodwood,' partly because kino exudes in the concentric circles of the wood ... partly because its fruits are in shape very similar to those of E. corymbosa."