Port Phillip SettlementSampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivingston, 1883 - 537 עמודים |
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aborigines acres appeared arrived Arthur Association Australia blacks boat Bourke British Buckley Captain Lancey Charles Swanston chief coast Collins colonists colony convicts Creek crossed Crown despatch Diemen's Land direction Enterprise establishment Excellency expedition exploration favourable fresh water Geelong Gellibrand George Town Government Governor grant grass harbour Henty hills Hobart Town honour Hovell Hume Indented Head Island J. P. Fawkner Jagajaga John Batman kangaroo labour Launceston letter Lieutenant-Governor Lord Glenelg Lordship Majesty's Melbourne ment Messrs miles morning night o'clock occupied party persons plains Port Jackson Port Phillip Bay Portland Bay possession present proceeded purchase returned river schooner sent servants settle settlement settlers sheep ship shore soil South Wales squatters Straits Surveyor Swanston Sydney natives territory timber took tracts of land treaty trees tribe Tuesday Van Diemen's Land vessel Wedge Western Port whole wind women Yarra Yarra
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עמוד 417 - Admitting, as every reasonable person must, that a certain degree of concentration is necessary for the advancement of wealth and civilization, and that it enables Government to become at once efficient and economical, I cannot avoid perceiving the peculiarities which, in this Colony, render it impolitic and even impossible to restrain dispersion within limits that would be expedient elsewhere.
עמוד 307 - CD (in his actual possession, now being- by virtue of a bargain and sale to him thereof made by the said CD in consideration of 5$. in and by an indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date of...
עמוד 307 - We have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servants, TB Macaulay, JM MacLeod, GW Anderson, F.
עמוד 122 - Bay; the soil was very rich on the overhanging cliffs, and the potatoes and turnips produced there, surpassed in magnitude and quality any I had ever seen elsewhere. I learnt that the bay was much resorted to by vessels engaged in the whale fishery, and that upwards of 700 tons of oil had been shipped that season. I was likewise informed that only a few days before my arrival, five vessels lay at anchor together in that bay, and that a communication was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Land by...
עמוד 102 - His Majesty's Government do not intend to incur any expense in conveying settlers to the New Colony on the Swan River...
עמוד 31 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
עמוד 307 - Simpson, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs of such survivor, shall and will...
עמוד 291 - York, in the latitude of 10 degrees 37 minutes south, to the southern extremity of the said territory of New South Wales, or Wilson's Promontory, in the latitude of 39 degrees | min.
עמוד 43 - The land behind us was the abode of a civilised people — that, before us was the residence of savages. When, if ever, we might again enjoy the commerce of the world was doubtful and uncertain. The refreshments and the pleasures of which we had so liberally partaken at the Cape...
עמוד 183 - The boat went up the large river I have spoken of, which comes from the east, and, I am glad to state, about six miles up found the river all good water and very deep. This will be the place for a village.