Phillipsland; Or, The Country Hitherto Designated Port Phillip: Its Present Condition and Prospects, as a Highly Eligible Field for EmigrationT. Constable, 1847 - 447 من الصفحات General reference to Aborigines and their customs; visit to Methodist mission at Buntingdale; quotes report by G.A. Robinson of murder of Aborigines in the Western District. |
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... Bank , to front page 76 . Sketch of Hobson's Bay , to front page 103 . ✓ Sketch of Native weapons of war , & c . , to front page 134 . ERRATUM . In page 136 , for " one of 100 white men , who were killed by the natives , " read " one ...
... Bank , to front page 76 . Sketch of Hobson's Bay , to front page 103 . ✓ Sketch of Native weapons of war , & c . , to front page 134 . ERRATUM . In page 136 , for " one of 100 white men , who were killed by the natives , " read " one ...
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... banks of which the town of Melbourne , the capital of the province , is situ- ated , rises in one of the south - western spurs or branches of the Snowy Mountains . It is a beautiful river , and its banks are in the highest degree ...
... banks of which the town of Melbourne , the capital of the province , is situ- ated , rises in one of the south - western spurs or branches of the Snowy Mountains . It is a beautiful river , and its banks are in the highest degree ...
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... Banks at an interest of four per cent . ; but as soon as the demand for land be- came somewhat brisk , from the great influx of immi- grants with capital who were eager to purchase , the interest on these Government balances was raised ...
... Banks at an interest of four per cent . ; but as soon as the demand for land be- came somewhat brisk , from the great influx of immi- grants with capital who were eager to purchase , the interest on these Government balances was raised ...
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... banks of the Yarra - Yarra River , four or five miles from Melbourne ; and this purchase cost him £ 3784 . The land was doubtless beautifully situated on a bend of the river , which nearly encircled it ; but there was no road to it for ...
... banks of the Yarra - Yarra River , four or five miles from Melbourne ; and this purchase cost him £ 3784 . The land was doubtless beautifully situated on a bend of the river , which nearly encircled it ; but there was no road to it for ...
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... banks , and lays a large extent of house , and at present no Government establishment , the police magistrate of which , although appointed , had not yet arrived , the place , in fact , being little more than a desert - fetched upwards ...
... banks , and lays a large extent of house , and at present no Government establishment , the police magistrate of which , although appointed , had not yet arrived , the place , in fact , being little more than a desert - fetched upwards ...
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Aborigines acre agricultural amount banks Barwon river beautiful boundary Bourke Britain British Cape Otway capital character cheers climate coast colonists considerable course Creek Crown cultivation Dieman's Land distance district of Port ditto doubtless emigrants England extent feet flax Geelong gentlemen Glenelg Goulburn Goulburn River Government Highest hills honour Hume River immigrants independent colony inhabitants John labour Lake Colac Legislative Council Lord Lowest Melbourne ment Messrs months mother-country Mount Macedon mountains Murray Murrumbidgee native neighbourhood opinion Ovens River pastoral period persons Phillipsland plains population Port Fairy Port Phillip portion present province purchase rain respectable revenue Scotch separate settlement sheep and cattle Sir George Gipps Sir Thomas Mitchell situated soil South Australia South Wales Southern Squatters Squatting Station stream Sydney territory Thomson tion town allotments tract of country Van Dieman's Land vicinity volcanic waste land Western Port westward whole winds Yarra-Yarra Yass
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الصفحة 252 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: that he might redeem them who were under the law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.
الصفحة 285 - Come, bright Improvement! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie's banks, where tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismal song, Where human fiends on midnight errands walk. And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk...
الصفحة 346 - ... Executive Council, to direct, that parties occupying stations in separate districts, notwithstanding that the same may be contiguous, shall be required in future to take out a separate license for each such district, and to pay the established fee of ten pounds for the same; and that no person shall in future be allowed to take up a new station, either in the same district in which his stock may be depastured, or in any other, without having first obtained a separate license for the same, under...
الصفحة 346 - Crown lands beyond the boundaries of location, his Excellency, the Governor, in consequence of the practice which has grown up of parties occupying several distinct stations under one license, has been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to direct, that parties occupying stations in separate districts, notwithstanding that the same may be contiguous, shall be required in future to take out a separate license for each such district, and to pay the established fee of ten pounds for the...
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