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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... feet in height , Arthur's Seat , from its supposed resemblance to that striking feature in the picturesque scenery of the Scottish metropolis . * About ten weeks after its discovery by Lieutenant Murray , Port Phillip was visited by Cap ...
... feet in height , Arthur's Seat , from its supposed resemblance to that striking feature in the picturesque scenery of the Scottish metropolis . * About ten weeks after its discovery by Lieutenant Murray , Port Phillip was visited by Cap ...
الصفحة 14
... feet in perpendicular height , are scattered over the country in all directions , which serve to diversify its general aspect , and especially to relieve the monotony of the plains . The same agree- able effect results from a number of ...
... feet in perpendicular height , are scattered over the country in all directions , which serve to diversify its general aspect , and especially to relieve the monotony of the plains . The same agree- able effect results from a number of ...
الصفحة 15
... feet in perpendicular height . This mountain , which is somewhat detached from the range , is of volcanic origin ... feet above the level of the plain , from which it springs like a perpendicular rock in the midst of the ocean . Mount ...
... feet in perpendicular height . This mountain , which is somewhat detached from the range , is of volcanic origin ... feet above the level of the plain , from which it springs like a perpendicular rock in the midst of the ocean . Mount ...
الصفحة 16
... feet high . The course of the Grampians to Mount William is north - easterly , and the range traverses nearly a degree of latitude . To the northward of Portland Bay , near the present boundary of the province , there is a range ...
... feet high . The course of the Grampians to Mount William is north - easterly , and the range traverses nearly a degree of latitude . To the northward of Portland Bay , near the present boundary of the province , there is a range ...
الصفحة 18
... feet above the level of the sea - by a winding course of at least two hundred miles , during which its waters have been exposed to the rays of an Australian sun , while the latter descends from the lofty mountains through a series of ...
... feet above the level of the sea - by a winding course of at least two hundred miles , during which its waters have been exposed to the rays of an Australian sun , while the latter descends from the lofty mountains through a series of ...
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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 400 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
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...
الصفحة 93 - Year then next ensuing, and for apportioning an equal Sum among the several Districts of the said Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor to issue Warrants under his Hand, directed to the Treasurers of the several District Councils, requiring them within Two Calendar Months from the Receipt of the Warrant to pay an Amount equal to the Sum assessed upon that District to such Person as the Governor shall appoint to receive the same, out of any Monies in their Hands belonging to the District.
الصفحة 34 - We had at length discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilized man; and destined perhaps to become eventually a portion of a great empire. Unencumbered by too much wood...
الصفحة 11 - A voyage expressly undertaken for discovery in an open boat, and in which six hundred miles of coast, mostly in a boisterous climate, was explored, has not perhaps its equal in the annals of maritime history.
الصفحة 242 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.