The Friend of Australia: Or, a Plan for Exploring the Interior and for Carrying on a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1836 - 428 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 371 - With Great Britain, alike distinguished in peace and war, we may look forward to years of peaceful, honorable, and elevated competition. Every thing in the condition and history of the two nations is calculated to inspire sentiments of mutual respect and to carry conviction to the minds of both that it is their policy to preserve the most cordial relations.
Σελίδα 382 - Letters from Governor Phillip, giving an account of the Nature and Fertility of the Land in and adjoining to any Settlement in New South Wales ; and of the probability...
Σελίδα 137 - Give me a blessing : for thou hast given me a south land ; give me also springs of water.
Σελίδα 379 - A new voyage round the world. Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico...
Σελίδα 220 - ... his withered body only the vessels and tendons necessary to connect its frame together. She has furnished him with a strong jaw, that he may grind the hardest aliments ; but, lest he should consume too much, she has contracted his stomach, and obliged him to chew the cud.
Σελίδα 261 - All the entrances to every town should be through a park, that is to say, a belt of park of about a mile or two in diameter, should entirely surround every town, save and excepting such sides as are washed by a river or lake.
Σελίδα 220 - ... his stomach, and obliged him to chew the cud. She has lined his foot with a lump of flesh, which, sliding in the mud, and being no way adapted for climbing, fits him only for a dry, level, and sandy soil, like that of Arabia.
Σελίδα 392 - Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, performed between the years 1818 and 1822, by Captain Philip P.
Σελίδα 389 - Views in Australia or New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land | delineated, in Fifty Views, with descriptive Letter Press, Dedicated by Permission, to The Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, &c.
Σελίδα 383 - An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King...

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