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... Colonial Office . On 15th May 1798 he had written to the Colonial Office : We have now possessed the country of New South Wales more than ten years , and so much has the discovery of the interior been neglected that no one article has ...
... Colonial Office . On 15th May 1798 he had written to the Colonial Office : We have now possessed the country of New South Wales more than ten years , and so much has the discovery of the interior been neglected that no one article has ...
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... Colonial Office , Macquarie said that he intended to construct at once a road over the mountains to this new region , and , as soon as the road was finished , to visit the new district personally . The Colonial Office in acknowledging ...
... Colonial Office , Macquarie said that he intended to construct at once a road over the mountains to this new region , and , as soon as the road was finished , to visit the new district personally . The Colonial Office in acknowledging ...
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... Colonial Office replied that " under a good and responsibly ad- ministered law of colonization , colonial squatting would be as rare as the invasion of private estates in this country " . Bourke answered : " these squatters are not ...
... Colonial Office replied that " under a good and responsibly ad- ministered law of colonization , colonial squatting would be as rare as the invasion of private estates in this country " . Bourke answered : " these squatters are not ...
Contents
The Dutch Discovery of Australia | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
The First Years of the Colony | 47 |
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The Inland Sea and the Great River: The Story of Australian Exploration John Howard Lidgett Cumpston No preview available - 1964 |
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A. C. Gregory Adelaide Archipelago Bathurst Bligh boats Brisbane Cape York coast of Australia Colonial Office Cook Cooper Creek course crossed Cunningham Dampier Darling desert Diemen's discovered discovery Dividing Range Dutch east eastern coast eastward England examined expedition exploration Fitzroy Flinders followed Forrest Giles Governor Gregory's Gulf of Carpentaria headwaters Holland hope Hume hundred miles inland sea interior islands Java journal journey Lachlan Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens latitude Leichhardt London Macquarie Macquarie River Melbourne Mitchell Mount mountains Murchison Murray Murrumbidgee navigation north-east north-west northern northward Nova Guinea Ocean overland Oxley Oxley's party passage Perth plains Port Essington reached region returned route sailed settlement ship South Australia south land South Wales south-west southward Spencer Gulf spinifex Stokes stream Sturt survey Sydney Tasman Terra Australis thence tracks travelled unknown vast Victoria River voyage Warburton west coast Western Australia westward Zealand