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... ports of the coast , Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour . On 28 December 1815 they entered Macquarie Harbour , a narrow sheet of water twenty miles long , with the smoke of bushfires in their eyes and the clamour of the blacks in their ...
... ports of the coast , Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour . On 28 December 1815 they entered Macquarie Harbour , a narrow sheet of water twenty miles long , with the smoke of bushfires in their eyes and the clamour of the blacks in their ...
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... port ran into mountainous seas which raked the ship from stem to stern . One giant wave smashed the bulwarks and washed overboard fifty sheep that were penned on deck ; another seventy sheep perished the same night . In the storm the ...
... port ran into mountainous seas which raked the ship from stem to stern . One giant wave smashed the bulwarks and washed overboard fifty sheep that were penned on deck ; another seventy sheep perished the same night . In the storm the ...
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... port , but so long as the sand bar clogged its entrance and inflated shipping charges the deeper Tasmanian ports might snatch the western trade by building long overland railways to the mining fields . Burnie , Hobart and Launceston had ...
... port , but so long as the sand bar clogged its entrance and inflated shipping charges the deeper Tasmanian ports might snatch the western trade by building long overland railways to the mining fields . Burnie , Hobart and Launceston had ...
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A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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