PLOT c/SX4W-D0 · version 1 of 1
The writer describes cuttings near the Kororoit Creek through basalt with black clay soil and through shell-beds, a quarter of a mile from the shore.
If the railway line be followed for a very short distance from the creek two small cuttings will be seen, the first through basalt, with its typical black clay soil, whilst the second displays a good section of the sandy shell-beds. This section is about two and a half miles from the North Williamstown station and about a quarter of a mile from the present shore line.Historical passage
About Williamstown
- Kind
- Reported by source
- Who said it
- Reported by community
- Period
- 1909
- Checked
- Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.
- Open questions
- None openOpen questions and challenges are counted publicly; their text is published when they are resolved.
- Where it says so
- The Victorian naturalist, v.26, 1909-1910 (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 21, victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 35, printed page 21
- How they know
- accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 35, printed page 21
- Limitations
- A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- Framework targets
- none linked
- Editions
- october-26th-release
How we found this
- In short
- Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "How the place looked", in historical_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
- Protocol
- accounts-core 0.1.0
- Question
- How the place looked
- Channel
- historical_archives
- Query
- Williamstown | Williams Town | Williams-town | Point Gellibrand | Gellibrand's Point | Gellibrand Point | Jawbone | Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural26fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
- Screening
- include (meets criteria), proposed by AI: Basalt, black clay soil and shell-beds a quarter mile from the shore.
- Extraction
- claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1
- Note
- accounts-core run williamstown-2026-10-23: Internet Archive texts (Victorian Naturalist v.1-37, Letters from Victorian Pioneers) and ALA specimen facets. Trove and BHL blocked: they need API keys.
Cite as: PLOT record c/SX4W-D0 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source
History (1)
- Version 1 (shown here): first published version