drought-blasted

Updated: May 23, 2025

Although not absolutely true, in fact, or rather on the surface, this quotation might be uttered with a strong measure of truth by many a poor wretch perishing from thirst on a drought-blasted inland plain, whilst underneath him, at a greater or less distance, run sunless seas. Of the magnitude of our great subterranean reservoir who shall tell?

Ernest Favenc - The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888