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The Government Resident's report for 1899 showed an income of £ 84,000 in gold from 2740 acres of mineral lease ; £ 86,000 in pearling ; 187,000 square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked .
The Government Resident's report for 1899 showed an income of £ 84,000 in gold from 2740 acres of mineral lease ; £ 86,000 in pearling ; 187,000 square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked .
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... set down thirty thousand square miles of the Territory as good agricultural land , ten thousand square miles as rich mineral belt , and a hundred and fifty - eight thousand square miles as good grazing country .
... set down thirty thousand square miles of the Territory as good agricultural land , ten thousand square miles as rich mineral belt , and a hundred and fifty - eight thousand square miles as good grazing country .
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A station - owner , a brumby runner , a drover with his plant , would begin to talk races and hold a meeting on the spot with a mob yarded by the black - boys . John Gilpin rode three hundred miles for a few gallons of square , the ...
A station - owner , a brumby runner , a drover with his plant , would begin to talk races and hold a meeting on the spot with a mob yarded by the black - boys . John Gilpin rode three hundred miles for a few gallons of square , the ...
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Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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| Title | The Territory |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1955 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 27 Aug 2021 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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