Australia as it is: Its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields, Том 1Colburn, 1852 - Всего страниц: 317 |
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... , opens a land of promise to millions of the Anglo - Saxon race , is of com- paratively recent discovery ; and for the most part , as yet , a wilderness untrodden by civilized VOL . I. B man . A century ago the mere coast line of.
... , opens a land of promise to millions of the Anglo - Saxon race , is of com- paratively recent discovery ; and for the most part , as yet , a wilderness untrodden by civilized VOL . I. B man . A century ago the mere coast line of.
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... coast line of this " Great South Land " was an unsolved geogra- phical problem in the eyes of the learned its very existence was a phenomenon so strange , that Blumenbach supposed it a planet dropped from the heavens ; and even the ...
... coast line of this " Great South Land " was an unsolved geogra- phical problem in the eyes of the learned its very existence was a phenomenon so strange , that Blumenbach supposed it a planet dropped from the heavens ; and even the ...
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... coast line is estimated at 8,000 nautical miles . Almost everything in nature is , in Australia , the reverse of what it is here . When we have winter they have summer , when we have day they have night ; we have our feet pressing ...
... coast line is estimated at 8,000 nautical miles . Almost everything in nature is , in Australia , the reverse of what it is here . When we have winter they have summer , when we have day they have night ; we have our feet pressing ...
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... coast , all along the eastern coast , and round the northern coast , nearly to Limmen's Bight . Between this great horse - shoe range and the sea extends vast , fertile , lightly wooded plains ; some parts of the 4 AUSTRALIA.
... coast , all along the eastern coast , and round the northern coast , nearly to Limmen's Bight . Between this great horse - shoe range and the sea extends vast , fertile , lightly wooded plains ; some parts of the 4 AUSTRALIA.
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... coast belt , however , are barren sandy tracts , studded here and there with huge hillocks of sand . In the interior , beyond the mountains , there are many beautiful fertile plains of con- siderable extent . The rivers are few in ...
... coast belt , however , are barren sandy tracts , studded here and there with huge hillocks of sand . In the interior , beyond the mountains , there are many beautiful fertile plains of con- siderable extent . The rivers are few in ...
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Australia as it is: Its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields, Том 1 Francis Lancelott Полный просмотр - 1852 |
Australia as it is: Its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields, Том 1 Francis Lancelott Полный просмотр - 1852 |
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