next-to-impassable

Updated: June 18, 2025

A terrible piece of next-to-impassable scrub, four or five miles through, lay right in our path; it also rose and fell into ridges and gullies in it. We saw one of the Mus conditor, or building rats' nests, which is not the first we have seen by many on this expedition.

Ernest Giles - Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,