Australia and Its SettlementsAmerican sunday-School Union, 1899 - 192 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
aborigines Adelaide appearance arrived auriferous Ballarat banks Bathurst Botany Bay Burra Burra Cape Cape Jervis capital captain church circumstances civilized coast colonists colony considerable convicts Creek diggings direction distance district east eastern emigrants Encounter Bay erected extremity feet Flinders forest formed Geelong gold fields governor ground Gulf half harbour height hills Hobson's Bay Holdfast Bay hundred miles inhabitants inlet island kangaroos labour land Macquarie Melbourne ment miners Moreton Bay Mount Mount Barker Mount Macedon mountain Murray native neighbourhood Nepean occupied ocean ounce owing party passengers plains Port Jackson Port Philip produce province quartz range remarkable rising river road rocks scarcely scene settlement settlers sheep ships shore side soil South Australia South Wales spot stream surface Sydney tents thousand tion town tract trees tribe twenty valley vessels Victoria western wild wind wood
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עמוד 40 - Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
עמוד 165 - And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
עמוד 42 - Victoria is bounded on the north and north-east by a straight line drawn from Cape Howe to the nearest source of the river Murray, thence by the course of that river to the eastern boundary of South Australia, or 141° E.
עמוד 175 - It is certainly a fact, which cannot be controverted, that most of the diseases which have raged in the islands during my residence there, have been introduced by ships; and what renders this fact remarkable is, that there might be no appearance of disease among the crew of the ship which conveyed this destructive importation.
עמוד 41 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
עמוד 45 - I descended), partly natural and partly made by the owner of the land, they cannot escape; for this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm, impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell states...
עמוד 166 - Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
עמוד 14 - Before separation, it was beautifully incased in quartz. The other two were something smaller. The auriferous mass weighed, as nearly as could be guessed, from two to three hundredweight. Not being able to move it conveniently, Dr Kerr broke the pieces into small fragments, and herein committed a very grand error. As specimens, the glittering blocks would have been invaluable.
עמוד 18 - ... irregular rounded or smooth pieces, and again in fused, irregular masses of pure metal of great beauty, weighing in some instances seven or nine ounces. It is also found combined with quartz pebbles or gravel of various sizes, evidently united to them while in a fused state, and on the surface of the detached masses of iron sandstone, but in the greatest abundance in the clays, from which it is washed in the form of rounded or flattened grains, like sifted gravel and sand of varied sizes.
עמוד 59 - Holland named New South Wales, it was resolved to form a penal settlement at Botany Bay, with the following objects: — 1st. To rid the mother country of the yearly increasing number of prisoners, who were accumulating in the gaols. 2nd. To afford a proper place for the safe custody and punishment of the criminals, as well as for their progressive and ultimate reformation ; and, 3rd...