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*Dogtown
Between the bank and the higher ground
extended, from Cole St to the point, a low lying level of
noisome swamp-land, almost always covered with stagnant water,
further back from the foreshore the black sand changed to stiff
clayey soil, whereon grew and struggled stunted copses of sheoak,
blackwood, and the native cherry. As before mentioned, the whole
dismal environs were haunted continuosly by voracious packs of
wild dogs and dingoes, whose melancholy howling made night
hideous.
(History of
Williamstown)
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