Cooksland in North-eastern Australia: The Future Cottonfield of Great Britain: Its Characteristics and Capabilities for European Colonization. With a Disquisition on the Origin, Manners, and Customs of the AboriginesLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847 - 496 páginas |
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... whole series of cones of that formation , designated by Captain Cook the Glasshouses , form a prominent and useful landmark to the mariner . Any intelligent person has only to direct his eye along the remarkable outline of this ...
... whole series of cones of that formation , designated by Captain Cook the Glasshouses , form a prominent and useful landmark to the mariner . Any intelligent person has only to direct his eye along the remarkable outline of this ...
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... whole days inside the southern or inferior entrance , till the surf , which was then breaking fearfully on the bar from the effects of a recent gale , had sufficiently subsided to enable us to get out into the open sea . " * Moreton Bay ...
... whole days inside the southern or inferior entrance , till the surf , which was then breaking fearfully on the bar from the effects of a recent gale , had sufficiently subsided to enable us to get out into the open sea . " * Moreton Bay ...
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... whole surface was covered about two inches deep with drift sand . Indeed , the floods here in the rainy seasons must be tremendous , as we observed in many of the trees , at least sixty feet above the level of the water , the wrack ...
... whole surface was covered about two inches deep with drift sand . Indeed , the floods here in the rainy seasons must be tremendous , as we observed in many of the trees , at least sixty feet above the level of the water , the wrack ...
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... whole is sterile . The high land near the western arm , though stony and shallow in soil , is covered with grass and trees of moderate growth ; but the best part of the country was that near Cape Keppel ; hill and dale are there well ...
... whole is sterile . The high land near the western arm , though stony and shallow in soil , is covered with grass and trees of moderate growth ; but the best part of the country was that near Cape Keppel ; hill and dale are there well ...
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... might leave the most important rivers or inlets along the coast un- discovered . The survey must be one of so minute a description as to leave no nook or corner along the whole line of coast unexplored , and with this view 28 COOKSLAND .
... might leave the most important rivers or inlets along the coast un- discovered . The survey must be one of so minute a description as to leave no nook or corner along the whole line of coast unexplored , and with this view 28 COOKSLAND .
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Cooksland in North-eastern Australia: The Future Cotton-field of Great ... John Dunmore Lang Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aborigines Aborigines of Australia acres alluvial appeared ascertained banks black natives black-fellows branch Brisbane River Brisbane Town brush called Captain cattle Clarence River climate coast Colony colour considerable Cooksland cotton course creeks cultivation Darling Downs distance district east eastward emigration entrance European expedition extent favourable feet fish flats Flinders forest Government grass Gulf of Carpentaria head huts island labour lagoons land latitude latter Leichhardt Logan River miles missionaries Moreton Bay mountains navigable North Pine River north-west northern northward observed Papuan race party passage passed Pernambuco persons Pine plains population Port Essington Port Phillip portion rain range ridges sandstone scrub Settlement sheep Shoal Bay side skin soil South Wales Southern southward spears species Squatters Station stream swamp Sydney tea-tree territory of Cooksland timber tion trees tribe vessel water-holes westward whole
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Página 36 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit ; And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 382 - Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah : the same is a great city.
Página 468 - ... hath made of one blood all the nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Página 9 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Página 382 - Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Página 493 - I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient, humble servant, TL MITCHELL, Surveyor-General. To his Excellency the Governor of New South Wales. Camp on the River Balonne, in long. 148° 46' 45
Página 264 - And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
Página 141 - ... and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.
Página 265 - From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens.
Página 129 - And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey ; and this is the fruit of it.