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Page 107
... course of Cooper's Creek , which disappeared into the sandhill country . In his journal Mitchell recorded how he first encountered and named the Victoria River : 15th September . - As soon as daylight appeared I hastened towards the gap ...
... course of Cooper's Creek , which disappeared into the sandhill country . In his journal Mitchell recorded how he first encountered and named the Victoria River : 15th September . - As soon as daylight appeared I hastened towards the gap ...
Page 126
... course , which was ultimately south - westerly , not north - westerly . He showed that it became part of Sturt's Cooper's Creek , and he gave it its Aboriginal name of Barcoo . In order to make some discovery , which might , at least in ...
... course , which was ultimately south - westerly , not north - westerly . He showed that it became part of Sturt's Cooper's Creek , and he gave it its Aboriginal name of Barcoo . In order to make some discovery , which might , at least in ...
Page 171
... course with respect to New South Wales , it seemed to him to follow almost as a matter of course that they should extend the same system to the adjoining colonies ; or , to use the words of Sir William Denison , in one of the despatches ...
... course with respect to New South Wales , it seemed to him to follow almost as a matter of course that they should extend the same system to the adjoining colonies ; or , to use the words of Sir William Denison , in one of the despatches ...
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