South Australia: Its History, Productions, and Natural ResourcesChap. 19; Brief notes on effects of contact, corroborees, early encounters & clashes with settlers, types of weapons, infanticide, census, 1881; Chap. 22; Early explorers & contact in N.T. |
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South Australia: Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources Jefferson Pickman Stow No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 69 - Act shall have been passed by the House of Assembly during any session of Parliament, and the same Bill, or a similar Bill with substantially the same objects and having the same title, shall have been passed by the House of Assembly during the next ensuing Parliament, a general election of the House of Assembly having taken place between such two Parliaments...
Page 69 - Bills shall have been rejected by or fail to become law in consequence of any amendments made therein by the Legislative Council, it shall be lawful for, but not obligatory upon, the Governor of the said province, by proclamation to be published in the 608 The Constitutional History of South Australia.
Page 144 - Br., bearing a globular fruit of the size of a small peach, with a succulent epicarp and a hard, bony, much-pitted endocarp, are all South Australia can boast of. There is also a deficiency in eatable root-bearing plants. A great many genera of plants of other countries which possess valuable and powerful medicinal properties have numerous congeners in the extra-tropical and more especially in the intra-tropical portions of South Australia, of which I will only mention the following orders, viz.
Page 144 - ... one. The declivities of the mountain ranges are for the most part similarly timbered, the trees sometimes extending to the summits, often only half or two-thirds of the remaining part being grassed, here and there with copses of...
Page 144 - Notwithstanding the little apparent difference in the formation of its surface, soil, and climate, the flora of South Australia introduces itself to the observer in its geographical extension by special and peculiar forms of plants in regions. These are the forest land, scrub land, grass land, and the intra-tropical regions.
Page 69 - Assembly, and thereupon all members of both Houses of Parliament shall vacate their seats, and members shall be elected to supply the vacancies so created ; or for the Governor to issue writs for the election of one, or not more than two, new members for each district of the Legislative Council : Provided always that no vacancy, whether by death, resignation, or any other cause, shall be filled up while the total number of members shall be...
Page 144 - Most of the leaves are ovate, entire, coriaceous, and pungent ; shrubs with pinnated leaves are seldom met with. ' The monotonous and dismal look of an extensive scrub is depressing, especially when viewed from an eminence. The equal height of the vegetation, the dull glaucous colour of the foliage, look in the distance like a rolling sea reaching the horizon —at least the first sight of the Murray Scrub, extending hundreds of miles, produced this impression on my mind.
Page 144 - The region of the forest land in South Australia occupies mostly the mountainous districts, and extending along the base of the mountain chains. The forests have not the fullness and lofty growth of those of other countries. The underwood is of...
Page 144 - Here, scattered, are to be seen the most stately and majestic trees of Eucalypts ; such tablelands appearing more like a park — the trees standing seemingly at measured distances, single or in small chimps, as if planted by the hands of a landscape gardener.
Page 144 - Labil, frequently covers whole mountain ridges and declivities ; when in bloom the different shades of color of its flowers produce an effect not easily described. The most prominent and striking effect of the mountain forest region is produced by the grass trees, Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, F.