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... plains of the interior and a good port , the country was too rugged and broken for any route to be practicable . In 1820 Throsby reported that he had found , in December of the previous year , a practicable route from Bong Bong over the ...
... plains of the interior and a good port , the country was too rugged and broken for any route to be practicable . In 1820 Throsby reported that he had found , in December of the previous year , a practicable route from Bong Bong over the ...
Page 87
... Plains , which are situated at a distance of about one hundred miles from Newcastle in a north- west direction to within about half - a - degree of the Brisbane . It appears that from the Liverpool Plains the country through which Mr ...
... Plains , which are situated at a distance of about one hundred miles from Newcastle in a north- west direction to within about half - a - degree of the Brisbane . It appears that from the Liverpool Plains the country through which Mr ...
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... plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in the next five miles . They were from ten to thirty feet across , and running full , the ...
... plains . Before we reached it we began to cross gutters of running water , and beyond it the plain was a maze of gutters . We crossed a dozen in the next five miles . They were from ten to thirty feet across , and running full , the ...
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