Land, Labor and Gold ; Or, Two Years in Victoria: With Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land, כרך 2Ticknor and Fields, 1855 |
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acres amongst appeared Australia Ballarat banks Bendigo Buckland Buckland River bush bushrangers called camp Campbell Town Campbell's Creek Castlemaine claim colony commissioners convicts deep Diemen's Land diggers diggings drays earth England English fact farms feet fellow flocks Forest Creek gardens Geelong gentleman gold gold-fields government camp governor ground Gully hand hills hither Hobart Town holes horses hundred island labor Launceston legislative council letters license Melbourne ment miles Mount Mount Wellington mountains never night Norfolk Island officers ounces Ovens party plain police population Port Phillip pound Price 75 cents quantity quartz ranges river road rock rush scene seen sheep side sold soon South Wales squatters station Sydney tent things thousand tion told travelling trees valley Van Diemen's Land Victoria week whole wonderful woods young
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עמוד 433 - With Portrait. Price 75 cents. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS. Price 75 cents. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Price 75 cents. THE CAESARS. Price 75 cents. LITERARY REMINISCENCES. 2 Vols.
עמוד 132 - ... copper, lead, or other minerals, or for any other purpose of public defence, safety, utility, convenience, or enjoyment, or for otherwise facilitating the improvement and settlement of the Colony...
עמוד 132 - ... public buildings, or as places for the interment of the dead, or places for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of any town or village, or as the sites of public quays, or landing places on the sea coast...
עמוד 132 - Colony, from making grants or sales of any lands within the limits of the run or lands comprised in such lease for public purposes, or disposing of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such lands as may be required for the sites of churches, schools, or parsonages, or for the construction of high roads or railways and railway stations, or other internal communications, whether by land or water, or for the use or benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, or for...
עמוד 269 - ... those perpendicular dykes lately described, have gradually undergone decomposition from the action of the atmosphere and of rains, and thus by degrees liberated the gold which has been washed into the streams and valleys. This action is still going on ; and therefore, after fresh rains, you will often find gold deposited in the roots of the weeds and shrubs in the creeks. A most striking proof of the result of the gradual decomposition of the surface we found in the creek which we worked at the...
עמוד 330 - Set that right, and all will soon right itself. So long as that is wrong, the whole community will be wrong, — in colonial phrase, ' bailed up ' at the mercy of its own tenants. . Nothing can show the wonderful growth of this city, and the mercantile excitement in England, the consequence of that growth, more than the fact that, while in 1850, the year before the gold discovery, the imports of the whole colony amounted to only...