The Colony of Western Australia: A Manual for Emigrants to that Settlement Or Its Dependencies, Comprising Its Discovery, Settlement, Aborigines, Land-regulations, Principles of Colonial Emigration; Statistical, Financial, and Agricultural Reports; Also Instructions and Hints to Settlers, Directions for the Anchorages, &c.; with the Most Correct Map Extant"With an appendix, containing the governor's commission, land-regulations, a list of the names of the proprietors, their original grants and number of acres, tenures, condition, transfers, & c " The colony of Western Australia : a manual for emigrants to that settlement or its dependencies, comprising its discovery, settlement, aborigines, land-regulations, principles of colonial emigration; statistical, financial, and agricultural reports; also instructions and hints to settlers, directions for the anchorages, &c.; with the most correct map extant. |
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