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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... Bush 273 What Right have we to Australia ? 275 Some People lose themselves , and others are found before they are lost 280 A Colonial Incubus . 284 A Peep at the Natives 284 Colonial Statistics 287 PAGE Bushrangers 294 A Bush Robinson ...
... Bush 273 What Right have we to Australia ? 275 Some People lose themselves , and others are found before they are lost 280 A Colonial Incubus . 284 A Peep at the Natives 284 Colonial Statistics 287 PAGE Bushrangers 294 A Bush Robinson ...
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... Bush Robinson Crusoe . 296 Messrs . Gellibrand and Hesse 296 Commissioners of Crown Lands . 297 Public Streets in the Earlier Days of Melbourne 299 Progress of Discovery 299 Extent of Australia Felix 306 Brief Snatches of Letters 312 ...
... Bush Robinson Crusoe . 296 Messrs . Gellibrand and Hesse 296 Commissioners of Crown Lands . 297 Public Streets in the Earlier Days of Melbourne 299 Progress of Discovery 299 Extent of Australia Felix 306 Brief Snatches of Letters 312 ...
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... bush - fires , burning off and clearing the land . " Perhaps , " they would say , " it is a miserable company of wretches like ourselves - outcasts from their homes , and native country . ” How delightful it was once more to see the sun ...
... bush - fires , burning off and clearing the land . " Perhaps , " they would say , " it is a miserable company of wretches like ourselves - outcasts from their homes , and native country . ” How delightful it was once more to see the sun ...
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... Bush , and have seen and heard many sights and sounds novel to us . The sharp cry of parrots , the scream of cockatoos , the loud talk of the wattle - birds , whilst multitudinous was the clatter and whirl of bush - crickets - the din ...
... Bush , and have seen and heard many sights and sounds novel to us . The sharp cry of parrots , the scream of cockatoos , the loud talk of the wattle - birds , whilst multitudinous was the clatter and whirl of bush - crickets - the din ...
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... bushes and over the prostrate trees . Abundance of the bush kangaroo and the wallaby , the middle sized and smaller species of the genera , are found in the grounds of a Mr. Beveridge , up to the very town of Launceston . Every thing ...
... bushes and over the prostrate trees . Abundance of the bush kangaroo and the wallaby , the middle sized and smaller species of the genera , are found in the grounds of a Mr. Beveridge , up to the very town of Launceston . Every thing ...
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