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Page 57
... large river ; which hath often low lands on each side of the outlet , and many islands and shoals lying at its entrance : but I rather thought it a channel , or strait , than a river " . . . Later information had demonstrated , that the ...
... large river ; which hath often low lands on each side of the outlet , and many islands and shoals lying at its entrance : but I rather thought it a channel , or strait , than a river " . . . Later information had demonstrated , that the ...
Page 105
... river " . Leaving Sydney in December 1831 he travelled northward to the Hunter River and on to Murrurundi and Tamworth ... large river flowing to the north - west must be far to the northward of latitude 29 ° . In a letter to Hay of the ...
... river " . Leaving Sydney in December 1831 he travelled northward to the Hunter River and on to Murrurundi and Tamworth ... large river flowing to the north - west must be far to the northward of latitude 29 ° . In a letter to Hay of the ...
Page 136
... large river flowing north - west : " The ultimate course of the Con- damine was still a question . " He thought it very desirable that a way should be opened to the shores of the Indian Ocean to promote trade with India , which was ...
... large river flowing north - west : " The ultimate course of the Con- damine was still a question . " He thought it very desirable that a way should be opened to the shores of the Indian Ocean to promote trade with India , which was ...
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