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Page 136
... sheep - breeding and wool - growing in Australia began with the arrival of the First Fleet , although it was about twenty years before the number of sheep in New South Wales was large enough to make the industry a staple of the colony ...
... sheep - breeding and wool - growing in Australia began with the arrival of the First Fleet , although it was about twenty years before the number of sheep in New South Wales was large enough to make the industry a staple of the colony ...
Page 137
... Sheep were increased to Five Pounds each ; and that the Wool is finer and softer than the wool of the preceding Year . The Fleece of one of the Sheep originally imported from the Cape of Good Hope , has been valued here at Four ...
... Sheep were increased to Five Pounds each ; and that the Wool is finer and softer than the wool of the preceding Year . The Fleece of one of the Sheep originally imported from the Cape of Good Hope , has been valued here at Four ...
Page 509
... sheep and cattle were already more than three hundred miles north , south and west from Sydney , and the squatters were establishing ' runs ' or ' stations ' , as they were called , in the Port Phillip and New England districts . The ...
... sheep and cattle were already more than three hundred miles north , south and west from Sydney , and the squatters were establishing ' runs ' or ' stations ' , as they were called , in the Port Phillip and New England districts . The ...
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