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" The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood or calmly judged of at present. My enemies, however, by disputing their validity in every particular, have done me the good service of fixing the whole of the... "
Proceedings - Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Page 66
by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - 1886
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Bibliography of South Australia

Thomas Gill - Australian literature - 1886 - 148 pages
...: A. MacDougall, 1839. Demy 8vo. EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. — The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is, I do not expect to be generally understood...service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave it to posterity, and not to them, to decide...
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The Exploration of Australia, Volume 1

Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1895 - 310 pages
..." The Barton College, near Adelaide, March 28th, 1839 — " The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is, I do not expect to be generally understood...them, to decide whether I am entitled to praise or blame." This gallant officer, who had fought bravely under the Duke of Wellington, through the Peninsular...
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Handbook of South Australia

David John Gordon - Northern Territory - 1908 - 434 pages
...published in Adelaide in 1839, Colonel Light wrote : — " The reasons that led rne to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood...service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave to posterity, and not to them, to decide whether...
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Handbook of South Australia

David John Gordon - Northern Territory - 1908 - 438 pages
...validity in every particular, have done me the good service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave...them, to decide whether I am entitled to praise or blame." When Colonel Light won the day it seemed as if all his fellow-colonists were bent on justifying...
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A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and ...

Thomas Gill - Adelaide (S. Aust.) - 1911 - 262 pages
...erect in King William street close to Victoria square: — "The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood...of fixing the whole of the responsibility on me. I nm perfectly willing to bear it; and I leave it to posterity, and not to them, to decide whether I...
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