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Page 47
... west , to have reserved a large area to the north - west , and another large area to the east , under imperial control . If such a policy would have had the effect of concentrating the attention of the publicists of the colony on the ...
... west , to have reserved a large area to the north - west , and another large area to the east , under imperial control . If such a policy would have had the effect of concentrating the attention of the publicists of the colony on the ...
Page 51
... Western Australia from a territorial point of view , it may be pointed out that the greatest length of the colony north and south is 1,280 miles , and the greatest width from east to west 800 , the whole being bounded on the west , north - ...
... Western Australia from a territorial point of view , it may be pointed out that the greatest length of the colony north and south is 1,280 miles , and the greatest width from east to west 800 , the whole being bounded on the west , north - ...
Page 58
... west , the Gascoyne , the North - west , the Kimberley , the Eucla , and the Eastern . Roughly speaking , the South - west Division includes four- fifths of the present population of the colony , and comprising , as it does , the whole ...
... west , the Gascoyne , the North - west , the Kimberley , the Eucla , and the Eastern . Roughly speaking , the South - west Division includes four- fifths of the present population of the colony , and comprising , as it does , the whole ...
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