A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1788-1840Nelson, 1980 - Australia |
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Page 19
... cultivation of maize , and cannot therefore guess so well at what I am likely to gather . I sowed part of my wheat in May , and part in June . That sown in May has thriven best . My maize I planted in the latter end of August , and the ...
... cultivation of maize , and cannot therefore guess so well at what I am likely to gather . I sowed part of my wheat in May , and part in June . That sown in May has thriven best . My maize I planted in the latter end of August , and the ...
Page 52
... cultivation by the settlers is 416 acres , and they have 97 acres more ground cleared of timber . ( Acres of land in cultivation , on the public account , 1,000 ; garden ground , 100 ; settlers ' ground , 415 ; whole quantity of ground ...
... cultivation by the settlers is 416 acres , and they have 97 acres more ground cleared of timber . ( Acres of land in cultivation , on the public account , 1,000 ; garden ground , 100 ; settlers ' ground , 415 ; whole quantity of ground ...
Page 410
... cultivation , there is no doubt that they must have been the cause of no trifling inconvenience ( from the restrictions imposed on the transfer of land , and from the necessity of proving their possession of a certain capital ) to those ...
... cultivation , there is no doubt that they must have been the cause of no trifling inconvenience ( from the restrictions imposed on the transfer of land , and from the necessity of proving their possession of a certain capital ) to those ...
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Aborigines acres agricultural allowed amongst appearance arrived banks Bathurst boat Botany Bay Britain Cape Captain cattle Church coast colonists colony command Committee conduct consequence Court Cove crimes cultivation Diemen's Land district duty emancipists employed England established Excellency farming female convicts Governor King Governor Macquarie Harbour Hawkesbury Historical Records Hobart Town hope Hunter important inhabitants John Macarthur June Jury labour London Lord Macarthur Macquarie's magistrates Majesty's March Marsden miles military Mitchell Library months Mountains natives Norfolk Island November observed occasion officers Parramatta party persons population Port Dalrymple Port Jackson pounds present prisoners provisions punishment received Records of Australia reported respect River sailed sent sentenced servants settlement sheep ships shore situation Society South Wales Corps spirits supply Sydney Gazette trade transportation Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage W. C. Wentworth wheat whole women wool