A History of Australia: From the earliest times to the age of MacquarieMelbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... Oxley noted down how irksome it was to make a tedious day's journey through country in which there was not the smallest variety , each day's occurrences and scenes being but a recapitulation of the day before's . Their patience , he ...
... Oxley noted down how irksome it was to make a tedious day's journey through country in which there was not the smallest variety , each day's occurrences and scenes being but a recapitulation of the day before's . Their patience , he ...
Page 299
... Oxley to call halt in anguish on the banks of the Lachlan . The first man who had followed the Dutch advice of 1644 , that he who might wish to know this country must first walk over it , had sent up a cry of despair . For days together ...
... Oxley to call halt in anguish on the banks of the Lachlan . The first man who had followed the Dutch advice of 1644 , that he who might wish to know this country must first walk over it , had sent up a cry of despair . For days together ...
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... Oxley had discovered on his return from the morasses.21 Still entertaining the most sanguine expectation that a communication with the ocean or interior navigable waters would be discovered by following the course of the Macquarie ...
... Oxley had discovered on his return from the morasses.21 Still entertaining the most sanguine expectation that a communication with the ocean or interior navigable waters would be discovered by following the course of the Macquarie ...
Contents
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 41 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY | 61 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 81 |
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