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Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Sturt

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Charles Sturt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1795
Born: April 28
Died: 1869
Died: June 16
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