Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies: With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields, כרך 3R. Bentley, 1852 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
a-year acres appeared Australia beautiful bird bush bush-rangers Cape Pillar climate colonists colony convict Darlinghurst Derwent Diemen's Land district emigration England English excellent eyes favour feet female fortune gardens gentleman George Town Government Governor half hands handsome harbour head Hobart Town horses Illawarra island January labour lady lately Launceston live looked Melbourne ment miles military morning Mount Wellington native night Norfolk Norfolk Island numbers officers party passengers penal perhaps persons picturesque pleasant poor Port Arthur Port Jackson Port Phillip possessed present pretty prisoners residence river road round season sentence settlement settlers Shamrock sheep shore Smith O'Brien soldier solitary South Wales splendid spot squatters station steamer Storm Bay Sydney Sydneyites tall Tasman's Peninsula Tasmania tion transportation trees Twofold Bay Van Diemen's Land vessel wild wind Wollongong wool wretched young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 94 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
עמוד 49 - And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds, And the willow-branches hoar and dank, And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds, And the wave-worn horns of the echoing bank, And the silvery marish-flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among, Were flooded over with eddying song.
עמוד 26 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray: Upon an huge great Earth-pot steane he stood, From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romane Flood.
עמוד 304 - As may be supposed, little time was lost by the worthy Doctor. Quick as horseflesh would carry him he was on the ground, and in a very short period the three blocks of quartz, containing the...
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עמוד 305 - In the first place the quartz blocks formed an isolated heap, and were distant about a hundred yards from a quartz vein which stretches up the ridge from the Murroo Creek. The locality is the commencement of an undulating tableland, very fertile, and is contiguous to a never-failing supply of water in the above-named creek. It is distant about fifty-three miles from...
עמוד 304 - Ibs. of pure gold was taken. Before separation it was beautifully encased in quartz. The other two -were something smaller. The auriferous mass weighed as nearly as could be guessed from two to three cwt.
עמוד 303 - His attention was first called to the lucky spot by observing a speck of some glittering yellow substance upon the surface of a block of the quartz, upon which he applied his tomahawk and broke off a portion.
עמוד 197 - ... although a man sitting behind contrived, more or less, to lock a wheel with a wooden crow-bar when the descent became so rapid as to call for remonstrance. Accidents have n'ot unfrequently occurred when travellers by this rail have encouraged, or not forbidden, the men to abandon the trucks to their own momentum down the hills; for there are several sharpish turns in the line, and the tram-way is of the rudest construction.
עמוד 390 - RODERICK MURCHISON to the Author. BETwEEN the years 1841 and 1843 Sir Roderick Murchison described to geologists the goldbearing rocks of the Ural Mountains, which he had explored. In 1844 (not 1845, as has been erroneously stated,) he published, in the fourteenth volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, a comparison between the Eastern Cordillera of Australia, which was then about to be described by Count Strzelecki, and the Ural Mountains. In 1840 he recommended the Cornish miners...