History of Austral-Asia: Comprising New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island, Swan River, South Australia, &c |
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Page 363 - Supposing a line to be drawn from the parallel of 34° 40' to the eastward, it will strike the Murray River about 25 miles above the head of the lake, and will clear the ranges, of which Mount Lofty and Mount Barker are the respective terminations. This line will cut off a space whose greatest breadth will be 55 miles, whose length from north to south will be 75, and whose surface exceeds...
Page 323 - ... per acre for all the land not so cultivated or improved, into the public chest of the settlement; and, at the expiration of seven years more, so much of the whole grant as should remain in an uncultivated or unimproved state was to revert absolutely to the Crown.
Page 71 - On the 3d, the main channel of the river was much contracted but very deep, the banks being under water from a foot to eighteen inches : the stream continued for about twenty miles on the same course as yesterday, when we lost sight of land and trees, the channel of the river winding through reeds, among which the water was about three feet deep, the current having the same direction as the river. It continued in this manner for near four miles more ; when, without any previous change in the breadth,...
Page 363 - ... for his family a peaceful and prosperous home. All who have ever landed upon the eastern shore of St. Vincent's Gulf, agree as to the richness of its soil, and the abundance of its pasture.
Page 3 - MARTIN'S (MONTGOMERY) BRITISH COLONIAL LIBRARY : Forming a popular and authentic Description of all the Colonies of the British Empire, and embracing the History — Physical Geography — Geology — Climate — Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms — Government — Finance — Military Defence— Commerce— Shipping — Monetary System — Religion — Population, White and coloured— Education and the Press — Emigration — Social State, etc., of each Settlement.
Page 354 - I had fifteen men under my command, and though they were of a class of people who take no care of themselves, not one of them was ill during our stay, nor did my own health suffer at all, though I was exposed to all weathers both night and day.
Page 273 - When there has been no particular storm about the time of the Spring equinox (March 21,) if a storm arise from the east on or before that day, or if a storm from any point of the compass arise near a week after the equinox, then, in either of these cases, the succeeding .summer is generally dry, four times in five.