The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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Page 208
... Western Australia is , however , almost retrograding . دو In itself the colony is not blessed with many natural advantages . It is , as an American visitor remarked , " the best country to run through a hour - glass he ever saw . " It ...
... Western Australia is , however , almost retrograding . دو In itself the colony is not blessed with many natural advantages . It is , as an American visitor remarked , " the best country to run through a hour - glass he ever saw . " It ...
Page 209
... Western Australia under its earlier and more familiar name of The Swan River Settlement . " Then the convicts were removed , and , as the Swan Riverites imagined , the Bill Sikes physiognomy was no more to appear among them ( 6 under ...
... Western Australia under its earlier and more familiar name of The Swan River Settlement . " Then the convicts were removed , and , as the Swan Riverites imagined , the Bill Sikes physiognomy was no more to appear among them ( 6 under ...
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... Western Australians are waiting for the deus ex machina which is to give them the prosperity which at present they lack . They grow wheat , but the moths and the rust destroy it , and at present flour is actually imported from regions ...
... Western Australians are waiting for the deus ex machina which is to give them the prosperity which at present they lack . They grow wheat , but the moths and the rust destroy it , and at present flour is actually imported from regions ...
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