# The writer describes the road to the Williamstown Racecourse as uninteresting and the place as newer basalt with marine shell-beds. > Cite as: PLOT record c/T4SP-T3 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source - **Address:** c/T4SP-T3, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/T4SP-T3) - **Value:** The Kororoit Creek road, along which we proceeded as far as the Williamstown Racecourse, is somewhat uninteresting, and the innovation of driving instead of walking the distance, some two and a half miles, was voted a great improve- ment. Here we halted and examined the newer basalt and marine shell-beds of the locality (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. 20, victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 34, printed page 20 - **The snippet in PLOT:** - **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 34, printed page 20 - **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): An excursion along the Kororoit Creek road to the racecourse shell-beds. ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/T4SP-T3.json Cite as: PLOT record c/T4SP-T3 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source