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Axes and sickles vanish every day as a log fort rises , seventy - five yards square , built of the trunks of trees , with a moat ten feet deep and ten feet wide . Within is a well in one corner , three wooden houses for the gentlemen ...
Axes and sickles vanish every day as a log fort rises , seventy - five yards square , built of the trunks of trees , with a moat ten feet deep and ten feet wide . Within is a well in one corner , three wooden houses for the gentlemen ...
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The Neale was a river a hundred feet wide , racing at five knots . Even the salt lagoons of the dismal mulga scrub were freshwater lakes with fish a foot long . Stuart named Lake Stevenson , to the east , from its light mirrored in the ...
The Neale was a river a hundred feet wide , racing at five knots . Even the salt lagoons of the dismal mulga scrub were freshwater lakes with fish a foot long . Stuart named Lake Stevenson , to the east , from its light mirrored in the ...
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He built two miles of road with a hundred - foot cutting through a hill to a jetty four hundred and fifty feet long with a derrick on the wharf to lift six tons . He built a mill of paperbark logs and iron , a hundred feet by sixty ...
He built two miles of road with a hundred - foot cutting through a hill to a jetty four hundred and fifty feet long with a derrick on the wharf to lift six tons . He built a mill of paperbark logs and iron , a hundred feet by sixty ...
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