beauty. The rivulet murmurs along in some places beneath a 
canopy of the native lilac and Leptospermum (tea plant), and 
amongst the orchidae that gem the hillsides is the singular 
Pterostylis grandiflora ” 
It would appear that Mr. Angas used the name “Morialta” 
(which is a native word meaning “ever flowing”) to apply to 
the stream only, and the name “Glen Stuart” to the waterfalls 
formed by that stream, as well as to the gap in the hills in this 
part of the Mount Lofty Ranges. While on this point, it may 
be interesting to mention that the writer has been informed that 
the creek is shown as “Anstey Rivulet” on Arrowsmith’s plan of 
the State published in London in 1839. Since that date the creek 
appears on all official plans at Adelaide as “Fourth Creek.” 
Perhaps it should be explained that the name “Morialta” 
was first given to the estate at Norton’s Summit owned by the 
late Hon. John Baker, M.L.C., who was one of our very early 
pioneers, having arrived here in the year 1838. 
In the preface to his book, Mr. Angas, after only ten years 
of colonization in South Australia, looks forward to the not 
distant disappearance of the native inhabitants and to the changed 
aspect of the country. Hence his desire to preserve by pictorial 
representation true and life-like records of men and scenes so 
that later generations might have a correct impression of this 
fair country as it smiled on its early pioneers. 
Amongst those through whose hands the Morialta Reserve 
has passed, particular interest attaches to the action of Mr. Price 
Maurice in introducing the pure Angora goat to South Australia 
on a scale sufficient to prove their adaptability to this climate. 
Fifty of these animals were imported from Castambul in Asia 
Minor in 1870, and the flock increased greatly. The locality on 
which they were run was also known as Castambul, which, 
though not a part of the Morialta Reserve, is not far distant. 
While the experiment showed that the Angora goat would thrive 
here, it was found that the sheep was a more profitable 
investment. 
Flocks of sheep grazed on the hillsides of the Morialta 
Reserve, as was witnessed by members of the Field Naturalists’ 
Section of the Royal Society, who paid two visits there as long 
ago as the year 1886. In the newspaper report of the first of 
these (held April 3, 1886), it is mentioned that “a vote of thanks 
was passed to Mr. Clement Sabine (agent for Mr. Price Maurice, 
to whom the property belongs) for kindly granting permission 
to the Section to go over the estate and take any specimens, and, 
as a sort of guarantee, the Section paid the nominal sum of 2/6 
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