The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... direction with the Trade Winds and indeed often merge into them.1 In considering the early history of the Australasian region , it is necessary to pay some attention to the original inhabitants . In this outlying portion of the Old ...
... direction with the Trade Winds and indeed often merge into them.1 In considering the early history of the Australasian region , it is necessary to pay some attention to the original inhabitants . In this outlying portion of the Old ...
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... direction from Spencer's Gulf " .2 John Oxley , the Surveyor General - appointed on the recommenda- tion of Captain Flinders - tried to find what became of these rivers and failed . In 1817 he wrestled with the mystery of the Lachlan ...
... direction from Spencer's Gulf " .2 John Oxley , the Surveyor General - appointed on the recommenda- tion of Captain Flinders - tried to find what became of these rivers and failed . In 1817 he wrestled with the mystery of the Lachlan ...
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... direction is the more significant since Buckingham deprecated interference on imperial grounds . He had already indicated that the controversy must be locally decided ; he now , on i February 1868 , in a despatch widely misunderstood ...
... direction is the more significant since Buckingham deprecated interference on imperial grounds . He had already indicated that the controversy must be locally decided ; he now , on i February 1868 , in a despatch widely misunderstood ...
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