trap-hill

Updated: May 4, 2025

Impediments to the navigation. Boat staked, and sinks. The leak patched. She again runs foul of a log. Provisions damaged. Resolve to proceed by land. Pack up the boats, and continue the journey. Pass the western extremity of Nundewar Range. Unknown tree. Water scarce. Providential supply. Crayfish. Trap-hill on plains. Cut through a scrub. Meet a tribe of Natives. Again obliged to cut our way.

Thomas Mitchell - Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1

The guides seemed to ignore its existence, so we christened it Mashghal Ala'l-Gezaz. On the slope of a trap-hill facing the Wady el-Ghami's, the southern valley which we had last crossed, stood a square of masonry scattered round with fragments of pottery, glass, and basalt. Below it, on the "mesopotamian" plain, lay the foundations of houses still showing their cemented floors.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2