The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... agriculture . ranges The South Queensland Plains . This region was first explored in 1860 in connection with the disastrous expedition of Burke and Wills . It is largely undulating country with wide alluviated valleys and low of ...
... agriculture . ranges The South Queensland Plains . This region was first explored in 1860 in connection with the disastrous expedition of Burke and Wills . It is largely undulating country with wide alluviated valleys and low of ...
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... AGRICULTURE 261 exported from Victoria weighed not quite eight tons.1 This meant a treble saving for the squatter . In pre - gold days , his bales were dumped " or compressed into a smaller compass at the port of embarkation in order to ...
... AGRICULTURE 261 exported from Victoria weighed not quite eight tons.1 This meant a treble saving for the squatter . In pre - gold days , his bales were dumped " or compressed into a smaller compass at the port of embarkation in order to ...
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... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
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