It is a Woodless region.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
The road to it from the low country, or Howe of the Mearns, conducts us through a winding, unequal, but very interesting glen, which, after bearing at its foot many patches of corn, yellowing amidst thick green copsewood and birch trees, fades and darkens gradually into a stern, Woodless, and rocky defile, which emerges on a solitary loch, lying 'dern and dreary' amidst silent hills.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan
Arrived at Lake Mooliondhurunnie, a nice little lake nearly circular and nearly Woodless, about one and a half miles diameter, at five minutes to seven p.
"McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia"
John McKinlay