Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and EmigrantsHall, Virtue, 1862 - 167 strán (strany) This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy! |
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... miles in superficial extent , and 200,000,000 acres , and consequently is considerably more than twice the size of Great Britain and Ireland . In future chapters I shall enter into details upon the physical peculiarities , climate , and ...
... miles in superficial extent , and 200,000,000 acres , and consequently is considerably more than twice the size of Great Britain and Ireland . In future chapters I shall enter into details upon the physical peculiarities , climate , and ...
Strana 9
... miles , and , according to their own account , posses- sing " magnificent resources , " the colony is not capable for some mysterious reason , perhaps known to its legislators , of keeping a population in round numbers of 127,000 in ...
... miles , and , according to their own account , posses- sing " magnificent resources , " the colony is not capable for some mysterious reason , perhaps known to its legislators , of keeping a population in round numbers of 127,000 in ...
Strana 16
... miles North of Adelaide ) the glass reached 123 ° in the shade , and 168 ° in the sun , about the region where spirits are supposed to boil by scientific authorities . At the Observer news- paper office , imagined to be from obvious ...
... miles North of Adelaide ) the glass reached 123 ° in the shade , and 168 ° in the sun , about the region where spirits are supposed to boil by scientific authorities . At the Observer news- paper office , imagined to be from obvious ...
Strana 24
... mile of imaginary streets and squares ) , in imitation of the Great Me- tropolis . In a fashionable locality , called the Sy- denham Road , I had the pleasure of renting a cot- tage , and I can assure my readers it was a most classic ...
... mile of imaginary streets and squares ) , in imitation of the Great Me- tropolis . In a fashionable locality , called the Sy- denham Road , I had the pleasure of renting a cot- tage , and I can assure my readers it was a most classic ...
Strana 30
... miles ; and the Murray has not got a safe and navigable entrance , and small craft have to be transported overland to escape the danger of the shallow and dangerous outlet . These facts will perhaps be a sufficient answer to those ...
... miles ; and the Murray has not got a safe and navigable entrance , and small craft have to be transported overland to escape the danger of the shallow and dangerous outlet . These facts will perhaps be a sufficient answer to those ...
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Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to ... Robert Harrison Úplné zobrazenie - 1862 |
Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to ... Robert Harrison Úplné zobrazenie - 1862 |
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acres amount amusement arrival Australian Shepherd bills bottle Burra Burra Burra Bush called capital capitalist cash cattle CHAPTER Cheatem Christian climate colonial wine colonists commercial compelled cottage countenance delightful Destitute Asylum destitution Diseases disgust dust effrontery emigrants endeavour England English extent fact feelings flies friends garden Gawler gentleman give Government habits heat Honourable hot winds House of Assembly imagine indignant informed inhabitants labour land leave look manner ment miles month mortgage nature neighbours NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE NOBBLER observed obtain occasion paid patriots peculiar perhaps perpetual persons poor population Port Adelaide possess pounds principles probably province pursuits rate of interest respectable River Torrens season servant shade sheep sirocco SONG OF AUSTRALIA South Australia specimen square miles statistics supposed talent temperature thermometer timated tion total number town tralia unfortunate Universal Suffrage vermin Victoria Whoskietoddie worthy
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Strana 87 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Strana 21 - They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed; ants eat up the books; scorpions sting you on the foot.
Strana 162 - In harmonies: And grassy knoll and forest height Are flushing in the rosy light And all above is azure bright, Australia, Australia, Australia.
Strana 114 - I give you that orange," which one would think would be what is called in legal phraseology, •" an absolute conveyance of all right and title therein," the phrase would run thus : "I give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title, and claim, and advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and...
Strana 101 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Strana 21 - An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your teacup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over...
Strana 120 - An apothecary, a lawyer's clerk, three sailors, a counting-house clerk, a tailor, a Jew, a For- : tuguese sailor, a Cingalese, a barman, a gentleman's son, a broken-down merchant, a former lieutenant in the East India Company's service, a gipsy, a black fiddler, and a dancingmaster.
Strana 114 - AB am now entitled to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with or without its rind, skin, juice, pulp...
Strana 83 - Oh for a forty-parson power (') to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy ! Oh for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise ! Oh for...
Strana 138 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns.