# 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.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/SX4W-D0 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source

- **Address:** c/SX4W-D0, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/SX4W-D0)
- **Value:** 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. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.26, 1909-1910 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 21, victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 35, printed page 21 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural26fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/CKXH-GQ?snippet=d8ff7379-fbbc-44eb-994e-8a0659a195fc>
- **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.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** 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.
  - 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): Basalt, black clay soil and shell-beds a quarter mile from the shore.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Cite as: PLOT record c/SX4W-D0 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source