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Page 118
... considerable extent of Australia yielded pastorage for sheep and cattle ; but then it required a great extent of land to supply animals with food - it took as many as four acres to feed a sheep ; it was still , however , desirable that ...
... considerable extent of Australia yielded pastorage for sheep and cattle ; but then it required a great extent of land to supply animals with food - it took as many as four acres to feed a sheep ; it was still , however , desirable that ...
Page 144
... considerable influence over it . It contains generally the best reports of the debates in the Legislative Council , and upon the whole this branch of its management is perhaps as fair as that of most publications in any Country , altho ...
... considerable influence over it . It contains generally the best reports of the debates in the Legislative Council , and upon the whole this branch of its management is perhaps as fair as that of most publications in any Country , altho ...
Page 192
... considerable distance below Wellington , on the Macquarie , is one vast gold field , that he has actually discovered the precious metal in numberless places , and that indications of its existence are to be seen in every direction ...
... considerable distance below Wellington , on the Macquarie , is one vast gold field , that he has actually discovered the precious metal in numberless places , and that indications of its existence are to be seen in every direction ...
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