The Historian · Ava · Sydney
Argyle Cut
You can see the toolmarks change halfway through. Convict chisel on one face, machine on the other — the colony's whole shift, in a wall.
A road hacked straight through the sandstone ridge — begun by convicts with hand tools in the 1840s, finished by paid labour.
— Ava, The Historian
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