The Macquarie, like other Australian rivers, has a peculiar character, and this was soon apparent in the reeds and lofty yarra trees growing on reedy PLATS, and not, as usual in other rivers, on the edge of water-worn banks.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Neat little flower-PLATS were seen fenced in adjoining the dwellings, containing pretty shrubbery, flowers, and fruit-trees.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
She was scheming as she came walking among the grass-PLATS at the base of the Tower and saw Mr. Spokesly descend from a carriage and take a seat facing the sea.
"Command"
William McFee