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... thousand - odd white people assume the responsibility for the defence of a coastline of thousands of miles ? How could a tiny band of two thousand civilize one- third of Australia ? The Stirling dream of Swan River as a province for ...
... thousand - odd white people assume the responsibility for the defence of a coastline of thousands of miles ? How could a tiny band of two thousand civilize one- third of Australia ? The Stirling dream of Swan River as a province for ...
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... thousand acres for every four thousand taken up . He also had ideas on what to do with the public buildings in the course of construction , the imprudence of a governor living in a house too large to furnish and run on his existing ...
... thousand acres for every four thousand taken up . He also had ideas on what to do with the public buildings in the course of construction , the imprudence of a governor living in a house too large to furnish and run on his existing ...
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... thousand acres at Cullen Bullen which was worked by cheap convict labour . In 1839 he took out a licence for a sheep - run at Dubbo ; by the early 1840s he held licences for eighty thousand acres in that district . His wife was the ...
... thousand acres at Cullen Bullen which was worked by cheap convict labour . In 1839 he took out a licence for a sheep - run at Dubbo ; by the early 1840s he held licences for eighty thousand acres in that district . His wife was the ...
Contents
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
OVERSTRAITERS OVERLANDERS AND OTHERS DESCEND | 84 |
ENGLANDS ECHO IN THE ANTIPODES | 113 |
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