The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and All the Settlements, from the First at Sydney to the Last at the Swan RiverWhittaker, Treacher, 1829 - Australia |
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Page 6
... northward , as far as 18 ° north , and southward to nearly 50 ° south . The portion of them lying northward of 10 ° south and eastward as far as 130 ° were known long before the large islands , and very long before the Eng- lish were ...
... northward , as far as 18 ° north , and southward to nearly 50 ° south . The portion of them lying northward of 10 ° south and eastward as far as 130 ° were known long before the large islands , and very long before the Eng- lish were ...
Page 10
... northward , and inclining to east to Breaksea Spit , a distance of about nine hundred and fifty miles . From Breaksea Spit north - west , inclining to north to Cape York , about one thousand one hundred and fifty miles . From Cape York ...
... northward , and inclining to east to Breaksea Spit , a distance of about nine hundred and fifty miles . From Breaksea Spit north - west , inclining to north to Cape York , about one thousand one hundred and fifty miles . From Cape York ...
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... northward to Cape York , have been called by the general name New South Wales ; and where the coast had been previously seen and named by any other nation , the English have not disturbed the name . Taking the coast westward from the ...
... northward to Cape York , have been called by the general name New South Wales ; and where the coast had been previously seen and named by any other nation , the English have not disturbed the name . Taking the coast westward from the ...
Page 16
... northward , shore B for some distance retains its sterile charac- ་ ter . It presents small hills of indurated clay , and beaches of sand . Two - fold Bay , about thirty miles north of Cape Howe , is the only inlet , and it is shallow ...
... northward , shore B for some distance retains its sterile charac- ་ ter . It presents small hills of indurated clay , and beaches of sand . Two - fold Bay , about thirty miles north of Cape Howe , is the only inlet , and it is shallow ...
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... have an instance of one of those modes of operation , that by the joint agency of the land floods and the eddy which sets northward from the projecting - points by the interruption of the southward cur- rent at OF AUSTRALIA . 17.
... have an instance of one of those modes of operation , that by the joint agency of the land floods and the eddy which sets northward from the projecting - points by the interruption of the southward cur- rent at OF AUSTRALIA . 17.
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abundant animals appearance Australia banks bark barren Bass's Strait birds Botany Bay Breaksea Spit Broken Bay Bruni Island canoe Cape Leeuwin Cape Pillar Cape Van Diemen Cape York Captain Flinders Captain King character chiefly climate Cloudy colonists colony colour considerable coral Derwent Diemen's Land discovery distance east coast eastward elevated eucalyptus extent farther feet fertile fish floods forest ground Gulf of Carpentaria habits Holland hundred miles inhabitants interior islands kangaroo labour latitude Macquarrie Moreton Bay natives nature navigation nearly north coast north-east North-west Cape northward Port Jackson portion probably Rain reefs resemblance ridge rocks sailed sand sandy season seen settlement settlers shore side singular soil South Wales south-east south-west southward spear species Specific gravity specimen surface Swan River Sydney timber tion tree tropical Van Diemen's Land vegetation vessel westward whole Wilson's Promontory wind wood