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... Lachlan - Murrumbidgee - Murray River system and probed the centre . Born in India , son of a judge and one of a family of eight boys , Sturt became a professional soldier . He had two years ' active service in France and more on ...
... Lachlan - Murrumbidgee - Murray River system and probed the centre . Born in India , son of a judge and one of a family of eight boys , Sturt became a professional soldier . He had two years ' active service in France and more on ...
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... Lachlan had lost itself in swamps , the Murrumbidgee , too , wandered into vast swampy reedbeds . The country was dreary , but they found a creek running into the river , which Sturt believed was the long - lost Lachlan . After ...
... Lachlan had lost itself in swamps , the Murrumbidgee , too , wandered into vast swampy reedbeds . The country was dreary , but they found a creek running into the river , which Sturt believed was the long - lost Lachlan . After ...
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... Lachlan past the farthest west reached by Oxley in 1817. In the hot dry summer of that year he found grassy flats where swamps had barred his predecessor . He began to wonder whether the Lachlan might go so far west that Sturt might ...
... Lachlan past the farthest west reached by Oxley in 1817. In the hot dry summer of that year he found grassy flats where swamps had barred his predecessor . He began to wonder whether the Lachlan might go so far west that Sturt might ...
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Columbus of the South | 26 |
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