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Page 313
... settlement at Moreton Bay . Oxley sailed with the expedition when it left Sydney on 1 September 1824. He selected a site for the settlement at Redcliffe Point and spent a month exploring the surrounding countryside . After his return ...
... settlement at Moreton Bay . Oxley sailed with the expedition when it left Sydney on 1 September 1824. He selected a site for the settlement at Redcliffe Point and spent a month exploring the surrounding countryside . After his return ...
Page 547
... settlement on the whole of the extensive northern coastline from Moreton Bay in the east to the Swan River in the west , a distance of 3,100 miles . The British government therefore decided for the second time to establish a settlement ...
... settlement on the whole of the extensive northern coastline from Moreton Bay in the east to the Swan River in the west , a distance of 3,100 miles . The British government therefore decided for the second time to establish a settlement ...
Page 556
... settlement , a large supply of food being now annually raised at Moreton Bay for the consumption of the convicts detained there , and admitting of annual exportation to Norfolk Island or Sydney . The number of convicts at this settlement ...
... settlement , a large supply of food being now annually raised at Moreton Bay for the consumption of the convicts detained there , and admitting of annual exportation to Norfolk Island or Sydney . The number of convicts at this settlement ...
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