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Page 65
... dividing range had still to be crossed . The stream at which they ended their journey was but the headwaters of the Nepean flow- ing east ; they had not reached any streams flowing westward . On their return , Lawson reported that they ...
... dividing range had still to be crossed . The stream at which they ended their journey was but the headwaters of the Nepean flow- ing east ; they had not reached any streams flowing westward . On their return , Lawson reported that they ...
Page 87
... Dividing Range prevented his reaching Moreton Bay , but he sighted it before returning to Sydney . Darling reported to the Colonial Office in these terms : The country which he explored lies between the parallels of 28 ° and 32 ° and ...
... Dividing Range prevented his reaching Moreton Bay , but he sighted it before returning to Sydney . Darling reported to the Colonial Office in these terms : The country which he explored lies between the parallels of 28 ° and 32 ° and ...
Page 101
... dividing ranges . . . and that when the mass of land now lying waste and unproductive , became exposed , the rivers , which until then had pursued a regular course to the ocean , having no channel beyond their original termination ...
... dividing ranges . . . and that when the mass of land now lying waste and unproductive , became exposed , the rivers , which until then had pursued a regular course to the ocean , having no channel beyond their original termination ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I The Early Centuries of Ignorance I | 1 |
The Dutch Discovery of Australia 127 | 12 |
British Navigators | 28 |
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The Inland Sea and the Great River: The Story of Australian Exploration John Howard Lidgett Cumpston No preview available - 1964 |
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A. C. Gregory Adelaide Archipelago Bathurst Bligh boats Brisbane Cape York coast of Australia Colonial Office Cook Cooper Creek course crossed Cunningham Dampier Darling desert Diemen's discovered discovery Dividing Range Dutch east eastern eastward England examined expedition exploration Flinders followed Giles Governor Gregory's Gulf of Carpentaria headwaters Holland hope Hume hundred miles inland sea interior islands Java journal journey King Lachlan Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens land large river latitude Leichhardt London Macquarie Macquarie River Melbourne Mitchell Mount mountains Murchison Murray Murrumbidgee navigation north-east north-west northern northward Ocean overland Oxley Oxley's party passage Perth plains Port Essington reached region returned route sailed Scale in Miles settlement ship South Australia South Wales south-west southward Spencer Gulf spinifex Stokes Strait stream Sturt survey Sydney Tasman Terra Australis thence tracks travelled unknown Victoria River voyage Warburton west coast Western Australia western coast westward Zealand