The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia: Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold FieldsSaxton, 1860 - 408 páginas |
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... carrying crops for the support of a considerable population ; and the nearest land at which live stock and dry stores could be procured was the Cape of Good Hope , a colony in the possession of the Dutch . As little judgment , as little ...
... carrying crops for the support of a considerable population ; and the nearest land at which live stock and dry stores could be procured was the Cape of Good Hope , a colony in the possession of the Dutch . As little judgment , as little ...
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... find Captain Cook's unfa- vorable impressions realized ; but he was destined to be most agreeably disappointed . The first tack carried the expedition out of the long heavy swell of the Pacific Ocean into the smooth water B * 3.
... find Captain Cook's unfa- vorable impressions realized ; but he was destined to be most agreeably disappointed . The first tack carried the expedition out of the long heavy swell of the Pacific Ocean into the smooth water B * 3.
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... carried back thirty - eight miles , over a rough road , to Para- matta , the rest being left to the native dogs and hawks with deep regret , " as meat fresh or salt had long been a rarity with the poor sick in the hospital . " Many an ...
... carried back thirty - eight miles , over a rough road , to Para- matta , the rest being left to the native dogs and hawks with deep regret , " as meat fresh or salt had long been a rarity with the poor sick in the hospital . " Many an ...
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... carried on . The Hawkesbury , in ordinary periods , winds in a strange- ly tortuous course through a deep valley , between the precipitous banks above which , on the occurrence of heavy rains , it rises as much as thirty feet in a very ...
... carried on . The Hawkesbury , in ordinary periods , winds in a strange- ly tortuous course through a deep valley , between the precipitous banks above which , on the occurrence of heavy rains , it rises as much as thirty feet in a very ...
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... carried out to the colony on his re- turn an order for a grant of ten thousand acres . This grant he selected on the banks of the Cow Pasture River , for he appreciated the discrimination of the lost herd which had there fattened and ...
... carried out to the colony on his re- turn an order for a grant of ten thousand acres . This grant he selected on the banks of the Cow Pasture River , for he appreciated the discrimination of the lost herd which had there fattened and ...
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