The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... sheep to many European countries , including Great Britain , where they came into the hands of King George . From King George's flock at Kew some were eventually taken by Captain John Macarthur to New South Wales.2 They also went to ...
... sheep to many European countries , including Great Britain , where they came into the hands of King George . From King George's flock at Kew some were eventually taken by Captain John Macarthur to New South Wales.2 They also went to ...
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... sheep farming , were at least as important a source of wealth in New South Wales and the other settlements as agriculture . But the conditions under which land might be occupied , and the price paid , by sheep farmers , or , as the ...
... sheep farming , were at least as important a source of wealth in New South Wales and the other settlements as agriculture . But the conditions under which land might be occupied , and the price paid , by sheep farmers , or , as the ...
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... sheep farming , the squatters over- flowed into the new wilderness . The determination of policy lay in the hands of autocrats on the spot like Bourke and Gipps ; they created a system of licences which brought little into the exchequer ...
... sheep farming , the squatters over- flowed into the new wilderness . The determination of policy lay in the hands of autocrats on the spot like Bourke and Gipps ; they created a system of licences which brought little into the exchequer ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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