The "Nile" of Australia: Nature's Gateway to the Interior. A Plea for the Greater Utilization of the Murray and Its TributariesW. K. Thomas & Company, printers, 1905 - 74 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 26 - The reclamation and settlement of the arid lands will enrich every portion of our country, just as the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys brought prosperity to the Atlantic States.
עמוד 10 - Immediately below me was a beautiful lake, which appeared to be a fitting reservoir for the noble stream that had led us to it; and which was now ruffled by the breeze that swept over it. The ranges were more distinctly visible, stretching from south to north, and were certainly distant forty miles. They had a regular unbroken outline; declining gradually to the south, but terminating abruptly at a lofty mountain northerly.
עמוד 19 - That in the opinion of this conference the commerce, population, and wealth of Australia can be largely increased by rendering navigable and otherwise...
עמוד 10 - Even while gazing on this fine scene I could not but regret that the Murray had thus terminated, for I immediately foresaw that in all probability we should be disappointed in finding any practicable communication between the lake and the ocean, as it was evident that the former was not much influenced by tides.
עמוד 65 - Parliament to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to ' Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States.
עמוד 17 - An apothecary, a lawyer's clerk, three sailors, a counting-house clerk, a tailor, a Jew, a For- : tuguese sailor, a Cingalese, a barman, a gentleman's son, a broken-down merchant, a former lieutenant in the East India Company's service, a gipsy, a black fiddler, and a dancingmaster.
עמוד 9 - At 3 pm Hopkinson called out that we were approaching a junction, and in less than a minute afterwards we were hurried into a broad and noble river.
עמוד 64 - The parliament may make laws conferring rights to proceed against the Commonwealth or a State in respect of matters within the limits of the judicial power.
עמוד 66 - When their rivers enter the limits of another society, if the right of the upper inhabitants to descend the stream is in any case obstructed, it is an act of force by a stronger society against a weaker, condemned by the judgment of mankind.
עמוד 25 - To initiate and carry on an effective system of making and recording continuous gaugings of all diversions, whether natural or artificial, or partly natural, and partly artificial, from the main stream of the Murray River and from its tributaries other than those wholly reserved to the separate use of certain of the States by Article 3 hereof.