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Page 199
... W. C. Wentworth summed up their achievements : - a Before it can be determined whether in this Excursion we have actually passed the Mountains it will be necessary to ascertain whether the Western boundary of this forest land which we ...
... W. C. Wentworth summed up their achievements : - a Before it can be determined whether in this Excursion we have actually passed the Mountains it will be necessary to ascertain whether the Western boundary of this forest land which we ...
Page 251
... W. C. Wentworth's A Statistical , Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales . The first was a trenchant criticism of the system of convict transportation . The second was the work of a colonial - born ...
... W. C. Wentworth's A Statistical , Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales . The first was a trenchant criticism of the system of convict transportation . The second was the work of a colonial - born ...
Page 328
... W. C. Wentworth the ' Exclusionists ' , the ' Exclusives ' and ' the yellow snakes of the colony ' . They opposed the admission of former convicts to juries , and did not support the idea of introducing representation into the ...
... W. C. Wentworth the ' Exclusionists ' , the ' Exclusives ' and ' the yellow snakes of the colony ' . They opposed the admission of former convicts to juries , and did not support the idea of introducing representation into the ...
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