Cattle Chosen: The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia, 1829 to 1841First published London, Oxford University Press, 1926, q.v. for annotation. |
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... settlers , and after taking everything that was useful , burnt them to the ground . However , they were all suppressed in good time , and many have suffered severely for their madness .'- J . G. Spicer , to J. G. Cookworthy , January ...
... settlers , and after taking everything that was useful , burnt them to the ground . However , they were all suppressed in good time , and many have suffered severely for their madness .'- J . G. Spicer , to J. G. Cookworthy , January ...
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... settlers had perforce to scatter . Until the work of von Liebig and Bennett Lawes , making feasible the cheap supplementing of poor soils , had become widely known , close settlement by agriculturists was far less practicable than the ...
... settlers had perforce to scatter . Until the work of von Liebig and Bennett Lawes , making feasible the cheap supplementing of poor soils , had become widely known , close settlement by agriculturists was far less practicable than the ...
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... settlers , as their knowledge of the timber grew , picked out these diorite soils ' by the blackbutt and red - gum trees they carried , the combination being a sure sign of rich land . " IV . A fourth belt , mostly a stiff loam , occurs ...
... settlers , as their knowledge of the timber grew , picked out these diorite soils ' by the blackbutt and red - gum trees they carried , the combination being a sure sign of rich land . " IV . A fourth belt , mostly a stiff loam , occurs ...
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