A Visit to Australia and Its Gold RegionsSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1853 - 202 páginas |
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... variety of provision had to be imported and paid for in hard cash , the money brought in by the capitalists was gradually flowing away , without the remotest chance of returning . As long as the capitalists were believed to be really ...
... variety of provision had to be imported and paid for in hard cash , the money brought in by the capitalists was gradually flowing away , without the remotest chance of returning . As long as the capitalists were believed to be really ...
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... variety of interests or classes , sufficiently distinct and important to appoint each their deputations : and , in fine , that in that short space of time this " Port Phillip district of the colony of New South Wales " had already ...
... variety of interests or classes , sufficiently distinct and important to appoint each their deputations : and , in fine , that in that short space of time this " Port Phillip district of the colony of New South Wales " had already ...
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... variety of casuarinæ , commonly called she - oak by the colonists , which genus of tree is most abundantly found over the whole district . They are not found growing in thick and dense forests or natural plantations , but scattered ...
... variety of casuarinæ , commonly called she - oak by the colonists , which genus of tree is most abundantly found over the whole district . They are not found growing in thick and dense forests or natural plantations , but scattered ...
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... variety and abundance of its mineral treasures , it appears destined at no very distant date to become the most important por- tion of the Australian continent , and the first in value and interest of all the colonial possessions of the ...
... variety and abundance of its mineral treasures , it appears destined at no very distant date to become the most important por- tion of the Australian continent , and the first in value and interest of all the colonial possessions of the ...
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... variety of conflicting feelings have agitated the breasts of the inmates of that vessel ! Before the coast was visible messengers had come to bid them be of good cheer , for the expected shore was at hand . The sea - weed , and broken ...
... variety of conflicting feelings have agitated the breasts of the inmates of that vessel ! Before the coast was visible messengers had come to bid them be of good cheer , for the expected shore was at hand . The sea - weed , and broken ...
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abundance acres Adelaide appearance Australian Alps Ballarat banks Barwon river Bathurst Bay of Geelong beautiful birds Blue Mountains Buninyong Burra Burra bush bustle called Captain cattle character city of Melbourne coast colonists colony of Victoria continent convey course Creek delightful Diemen's Land diggers discovery distance district emigration England excellent explored feet garden gold digging gold field Governor ground harbour hills Illawarra Island kangaroo labour large number leave magnificent metal miles miners months Mount Alexander Mount Disappoint Mount Macedon nearly ounce Paramatta pastoral picturesque population Port Jackson Port Phillip Port Phillip Bay portion pounds pounds weight present produce purchase quantity rapid rich river rocks scarcely seen sheep ship shores side sight soil soon South Australia South Wales specimens stream streets Sydney tent thirty tion town tract trees Van Diemen's Land variety vessel week wind wood
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Página 11 - ... of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller...
Página 158 - They consist often of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends in the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant.
Página 92 - Thus, under the blessing of God, was happily completed, in eight months and one week, a voyage which, before it was undertaken, the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination.
Página 90 - ... guard and the convicts who had been landed in the morning. The spot chosen for this purpose was at the head of the cove, near the run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interrupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquillity which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and...
Página 10 - ... we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated...
Página 11 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon.
Página 95 - OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail : For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale...
Página 10 - From the time we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the Southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the...
Página 95 - All feel the assault of Fortune's fickle gale: Art, empire, earth itself to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd : And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd.
Página 142 - ... the north is the hot wind, and the south the cold; where the humblest house is fitted up with cedar...