The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and All the Settlement's, from the First at Sydney to the Last at the Swan River |
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... means of correcting a few mistakes in former writers . In short , I have endeavoured to make the book a 66 Picture of Au- stralia , ” — a mere outline , it is true , but still , I hope , faithful to the original in the principal ...
... means of correcting a few mistakes in former writers . In short , I have endeavoured to make the book a 66 Picture of Au- stralia , ” — a mere outline , it is true , but still , I hope , faithful to the original in the principal ...
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... means by which the adventurer may ensure success - is , therefore , a de- sideratum . This it is the object of the following pages to supply ; and if it be a failure , the fault must be in the execution , for the published authorities ...
... means by which the adventurer may ensure success - is , therefore , a de- sideratum . This it is the object of the following pages to supply ; and if it be a failure , the fault must be in the execution , for the published authorities ...
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... means and the example of civiliza- tion to others , one can hardly avoid fixing upon Aus- tralia as the only one in which the settler can find a permanent home for himself and his descendants . Hindustan , the shores of South America ...
... means and the example of civiliza- tion to others , one can hardly avoid fixing upon Aus- tralia as the only one in which the settler can find a permanent home for himself and his descendants . Hindustan , the shores of South America ...
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... means or measure , to which reference can at present be made . And the discovery of those vast regions , when the interior has been as carefully ex- plored as the coasts , will give to the conquest of know- ledge as much as the ...
... means or measure , to which reference can at present be made . And the discovery of those vast regions , when the interior has been as carefully ex- plored as the coasts , will give to the conquest of know- ledge as much as the ...
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... means much uninstructive repetition will be avoided . Different portions of the coasts of New Holland have also been named after the navigators by whom they were first discovered , the ships which they commanded , or individuals whom ...
... means much uninstructive repetition will be avoided . Different portions of the coasts of New Holland have also been named after the navigators by whom they were first discovered , the ships which they commanded , or individuals whom ...
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The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, and All ... Robert Mudie No preview available - 2015 |
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animals appear Australia banks bark barren Bass's Strait birds Botany Bay Breaksea Spit Broken Bay Cape Grim Cape Leeuwin Cape Pillar Cape Van Diemen Cape York Captain Flinders Captain King character climate Cloudy colonists colony colour considerable coral Derwent Diemen's Land discovered discovery distance east coast eastward Edition elevation eucalyptus extent farther feet fertile fish flooded forest fresh water Gulf of Carpentaria habits hills Holland hundred miles inhabitants interior islands kangaroo labour latitude longitude Moreton Bay natives nature navigation nearly north coast north-east North-west Cape northward places Port Jackson portion probably Rain reefs resemblance ridge of mountains rocks sand sandy settlers shore side soil South Wales south-east south-west southward spear species summit surface Swan River Sydney timber tion trees tropical Van Diemen's Land vegetation vessel Vols water divides west coast westward whole Wilson's Promontory wind wood
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Page 25 - Petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred yards, or more, in breadth; the birds were not scattered but flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow; and during a full hour and a half, this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation I think the number could not have been less than a hundred millions...