Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony: Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &cLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 - 362 páginas |
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... dray , considered it poor work to get only six pounds per week . Our weather - boarded cottage had been prepared by my nephew in Melbourne , ready for putting up on the farm , when we could get it conveyed there . To engage a drayman and ...
... dray , considered it poor work to get only six pounds per week . Our weather - boarded cottage had been prepared by my nephew in Melbourne , ready for putting up on the farm , when we could get it conveyed there . To engage a drayman and ...
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... dray amongst the rocks , thrown , and the basket holding them , to the ground in pitiable ruin . The fragments lie to this day under a monstrous gum - tree by the road - side . Here we had employment enough before us in the wilderness ...
... dray amongst the rocks , thrown , and the basket holding them , to the ground in pitiable ruin . The fragments lie to this day under a monstrous gum - tree by the road - side . Here we had employment enough before us in the wilderness ...
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... dray , & c . , the team as I thought complete . But it was soon found neces- sary that something should be done to strengthen the vehicle , it not being strong enough for our heavy work . Days and days went by , whilst this work was ...
... dray , & c . , the team as I thought complete . But it was soon found neces- sary that something should be done to strengthen the vehicle , it not being strong enough for our heavy work . Days and days went by , whilst this work was ...
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... dray was borrowed . Again , and again , when the weather would permit us , a load was got down . I walked up the ten miles and home again , that if any accident happened , I might be at hand to render any assist- ance . Day after day I ...
... dray was borrowed . Again , and again , when the weather would permit us , a load was got down . I walked up the ten miles and home again , that if any accident happened , I might be at hand to render any assist- ance . Day after day I ...
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... dray , these people , besides taking in two churns full of milk tied together with a rope , and slung over the horse's back , before breakfast , took two loads of wood into the town , four miles off . This they did six days every week ...
... dray , these people , besides taking in two churns full of milk tied together with a rope , and slung over the horse's back , before breakfast , took two loads of wood into the town , four miles off . This they did six days every week ...
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Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony ... Richard Howitt Visualização integral - 1845 |
Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony ... Richard Howitt Visualização integral - 1845 |
Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony ... Richard Howitt Visualização de excertos - 1845 |
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aborigines abundant acres amongst anchor Australia Felix beautiful betwixt Billy Barlow birds boat breeze bright bush Cape captain cattle civilised clouds colony convicts cottage creatures creek dark deep delightful Diemen's Land dray earth emigrants England English feeling fire flocks forest friends gale Geelong gum-trees heard heavens hills horses island kangaroo kind labour lake Launceston look Lord John Russell Melbourne miles morning Mount Macedon mountains native nature neighbourhood never night ocean passed pastoral person pleasant Port Phillip Port Phillip Bay rain rich river river Tamar round sail seemed seen settlers she-oak sheep shepherds ship shore sight Sir George Gipps South Wales squatters station storm Sydney thee things thought town trees tribe Van Diemen's Land vast vessel voyage walk waves Western Port whilst wild wind woods Yarra