Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 2Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Australia |
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Page 172
... remarkable circumstance connected with the basaltic dykes is , that they are composed of a more compact basaltic rock than the basalt which they penetrate , so that whilst the rock has mouldered away , these basaltic dykes have remained ...
... remarkable circumstance connected with the basaltic dykes is , that they are composed of a more compact basaltic rock than the basalt which they penetrate , so that whilst the rock has mouldered away , these basaltic dykes have remained ...
Page 219
... remarkable that although so many persons have described isolated customs of this people , that no one has yet taken the trouble to digest them into one mass , and to exhibit them in the aggregate , so that an inference might be drawn as ...
... remarkable that although so many persons have described isolated customs of this people , that no one has yet taken the trouble to digest them into one mass , and to exhibit them in the aggregate , so that an inference might be drawn as ...
Page 395
... remarkable detached ranges of table land , from 500 to 600 feet high , at the northern extreme of which are the Menai Hills . Some of them show as peaks , but appear only to be the gable ends , as it were , of table - topped ridges . In ...
... remarkable detached ranges of table land , from 500 to 600 feet high , at the northern extreme of which are the Menai Hills . Some of them show as peaks , but appear only to be the gable ends , as it were , of table - topped ridges . In ...
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