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Page 77
... contemporary opinion on the point under discussion . As E. M. Curr wrote , justly because realistically : Station life not only put a stop to drunkenness and theft by the absence of grog and of anything worth stealing , but the constant ...
... contemporary opinion on the point under discussion . As E. M. Curr wrote , justly because realistically : Station life not only put a stop to drunkenness and theft by the absence of grog and of anything worth stealing , but the constant ...
Page 130
... contemporary records make it clear that a great many ex - convicts from Van Diemen's Land and quite a number from N.S.W. emigrated to Victoria during the period . For instance , J. C. Byrne ( Twelve Years ' Wanderings in the British ...
... contemporary records make it clear that a great many ex - convicts from Van Diemen's Land and quite a number from N.S.W. emigrated to Victoria during the period . For instance , J. C. Byrne ( Twelve Years ' Wanderings in the British ...
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... the parched distances of the interior , with conventional English contemporary ideas of the picturesque ' , or that parts of the relatively domesticated coastal plain could more readily be des- cribed 202 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
... the parched distances of the interior , with conventional English contemporary ideas of the picturesque ' , or that parts of the relatively domesticated coastal plain could more readily be des- cribed 202 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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