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Page 183
... settlement at Port Phillip . As Lieutenant - Governor they chose David Collins , who had left Sydney in 1796 on the Britannia to return to London . As chaplain they chose Robert Knopwood . Born in 1761 , an M.A. of Cambridge , by per ...
... settlement at Port Phillip . As Lieutenant - Governor they chose David Collins , who had left Sydney in 1796 on the Britannia to return to London . As chaplain they chose Robert Knopwood . Born in 1761 , an M.A. of Cambridge , by per ...
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... settlement's future material prosperity . In 1804 , one William Collins saw the Derwent to be most advantageously situated for the establishment and carrying on of a southern whale fishery . David Collins saw ships from England calling ...
... settlement's future material prosperity . In 1804 , one William Collins saw the Derwent to be most advantageously situated for the establishment and carrying on of a southern whale fishery . David Collins saw ships from England calling ...
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... settlements of New South Wales began their sombre history . At the end of 1801 the Hunter's River settlement was abandoned , but it was begun again in March 1804 when some deluded Irish insurgents from the Castle Hill rising were sent ...
... settlements of New South Wales began their sombre history . At the end of 1801 the Hunter's River settlement was abandoned , but it was begun again in March 1804 when some deluded Irish insurgents from the Castle Hill rising were sent ...
Contents
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 41 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY | 61 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 73 |
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