The reader at Wythburn had for his salary three pounds yearly, a hempen sark or shirt, a whittlegate, and a goosegate, or right to Depasture a flock of geese on Helvellyn.
"Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland"
Daniel Scott
If the bar at the mouth of the river will admit vessels to enter there is a sufficiency of water at all tides to ship horses or stock from alongside the banks without any wharf or anything else, and good country to Depasture upon, but the grasses too strong generally for sheep.
"McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia"
John McKinlay
The probability is that the impossibility of selection beyond a certain area will be recognised, and special inducements will be offered to persons wishing to Depasture unused land in the centre of the continent.
"Town Life in Australia 1883"
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny