Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38 and 39: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important and Feritle Districts : with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, Volume 2Boone, 1841 - 482 pages |
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... c . BY GEORGE GREY , ESQ . GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ; Late Captain of the Eighty - third Regiment . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : T. AND W. BOONE , 29 , NEW BOND STREET . Wb / 63 / 826 43 St. 1 .. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA , BY 1841 ...
... c . BY GEORGE GREY , ESQ . GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ; Late Captain of the Eighty - third Regiment . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : T. AND W. BOONE , 29 , NEW BOND STREET . Wb / 63 / 826 43 St. 1 .. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA , BY 1841 ...
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... South - west Australia in which I had met with the ancient red sandstone of the North- west coast ; immediately behind the sand - hills on which I stood was a thick Casuarina scrub , which sloped down into a deep valley , and beyond ...
... South - west Australia in which I had met with the ancient red sandstone of the North- west coast ; immediately behind the sand - hills on which I stood was a thick Casuarina scrub , which sloped down into a deep valley , and beyond ...
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... south - east I turned up its bed , and we were then able to move along with tolerable facility . This water- course ran at the bottom of a red sandstone ravine , resembling the old red sandstone of England ; and the remainder of the ...
... south - east I turned up its bed , and we were then able to move along with tolerable facility . This water- course ran at the bottom of a red sandstone ravine , resembling the old red sandstone of England ; and the remainder of the ...
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... south , and terminating in a larger one , which drained the country from east to west . This valley is remarkable as containing one Xanthorrhea ( grass- tree ) ; being the farthest point to the north at which I have found this tree . In ...
... south , and terminating in a larger one , which drained the country from east to west . This valley is remarkable as containing one Xanthorrhea ( grass- tree ) ; being the farthest point to the north at which I have found this tree . In ...
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... south , that I tried to find a satisfactory reason , to explain so strange a circumstance - but without success . It seemed certain , however , that we stood in the richest province of South - west Australia , and one which so differs ...
... south , that I tried to find a satisfactory reason , to explain so strange a circumstance - but without success . It seemed certain , however , that we stood in the richest province of South - west Australia , and one which so differs ...
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