Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony: Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &c |
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... appearance with the English shore of North and South Foreland . There is a fine reach of coast , almost crescent - shaped , from Ramsgate to Dover , with the town of Deal in the centre . The chalky cliffs , and long strip of brown sand ...
... appearance with the English shore of North and South Foreland . There is a fine reach of coast , almost crescent - shaped , from Ramsgate to Dover , with the town of Deal in the centre . The chalky cliffs , and long strip of brown sand ...
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... appearance of the sea by the ship's side . The deep dark blue of the water broken up by the progress of the vessel through it into a lighter colouring - black , with snowy foam : very beautiful . Beyond all imagination is the silence of ...
... appearance of the sea by the ship's side . The deep dark blue of the water broken up by the progress of the vessel through it into a lighter colouring - black , with snowy foam : very beautiful . Beyond all imagination is the silence of ...
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... appearance of the sky ; and has been for the three last days . The heavens are black - veiled perpetually in one suf- fusion of smoke - coloured cloud . This , I am told , is character- istic of this part of the sea on the African coast ...
... appearance of the sky ; and has been for the three last days . The heavens are black - veiled perpetually in one suf- fusion of smoke - coloured cloud . This , I am told , is character- istic of this part of the sea on the African coast ...
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... appearance of danger than the reality . The captain was intrepid , the other officers active and dutiful , and what was fearful was rendered less so by sober exertion and skill ; no one can tell what ships and lives are lost by drunken ...
... appearance of danger than the reality . The captain was intrepid , the other officers active and dutiful , and what was fearful was rendered less so by sober exertion and skill ; no one can tell what ships and lives are lost by drunken ...
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... appearance , no massy pillowy or black clouds ; " How can he tell ? " I looked on the sea to the farthest verge of the horizon eastward , and there saw -not the wind , certainly — but what the mate had seen , a visi- ble indication of ...
... appearance , no massy pillowy or black clouds ; " How can he tell ? " I looked on the sea to the farthest verge of the horizon eastward , and there saw -not the wind , certainly — but what the mate had seen , a visi- ble indication of ...
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