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A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields

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Author : Charles Harris Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields written by Charles Harris Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Australia categories.

A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields

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Author : Charles H. Allen
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2009

A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields written by Charles H. Allen and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POINT DE GALLE TO SYDNEY. We ran the 2,134 miles which lie between. Aden and Point de Galle in eight and a half days. Several dangerous-looking rocks lie at the entrance of the latter harbour, rendering it necessary to use much caution in going round them. They stand boldly out of the water, and on them, the surf beats heavily all the year round, as it does also on the beach of the harbour. The constantly high, rough sea on this coast has compelled the natives to employ a very curious little boat, which, though frail in appearance, has the advantage of being able to weather the heaviest storm. This boat, which is called a Catamaran, is formed of the hollowed trunk of a tree, the sides of which are raised about a foot and a half by strong planks. It thus forms a narrow box, some twenty or thirty feet long, one foot wide and about two feet deep, just enabling you to sit on the cross-rails by which it is strengthened. From each end of the frail bark a long curved pole projects about ten feet on one side, and at the extremity of those two poles is securely lashed along, heavy, solid log of wood, in the form of a crescent moon, and sharpened to a point at each end. This heavy log prevents the little boat from falling over on one side by its great weight, whilst its buoyancy sustains it on the other. The native rowers propel the catamarans very swiftly with their oars, and in a high wind they hoist one mast and sail, and run before the gale at great speed, and an accident is scarcely ever known. The harbour of Point de Galle forms a broad horseshoe. On the easternmost side stands a high rocky hill, covered with cocoa-nut and other tropical trees. At the other extremity the land runs out as a low, narrow spit, on which a lighthouse has been placed. On this spit, turning partly roun...

A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields

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Author : Chas. H. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

A Visit To Queensland And Her Goldfields written by Chas. H. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with categories.

A Visit To Queenland And Her Goldfields

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Author : Charles H. Allen (F.R.G.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

A Visit To Queenland And Her Goldfields written by Charles H. Allen (F.R.G.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Gold mines and mining categories.

The Golden Madness Writings From The Queensland Gold Rush

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Author : James Moylan
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-05-15

The Golden Madness Writings From The Queensland Gold Rush written by James Moylan and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.

This volume contains a small selection of my favorite writings relating to the gold rush period in Queensland. I hope to provide the reader with a glimpse of the everyday topics and events that were of interest to the pioneer miners in the north of Australia. By largely avoiding sterile historical accounts in favor of primary texts in which personal opinions and first person observations are unselfconsciously expressed I endeavor to provide a sense of the social complexities of this era. The 'common sense' of this period is not our common sense. Many of the sentiments and prejudices expressed are jarring to a modern sensibility. Racist attitudes are unambiguously expressed. Empire is a stolid reality. Women are inferior to men. The 'great chain of being' provides an all-encompassing teleology by which all things under heaven might be ordered. Please enjoy a journey to the strangest land of them all - the past. James Moylan Researcher & Author

A Visit To Queenland And Her Goldfields

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Author : Charles H Allen
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09

A Visit To Queenland And Her Goldfields written by Charles H Allen and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... ROCKHAMPTON AND THE FITZROY RIVER. When, in 1843, H.M.S. Fly made a survey of the north-eastern coast of Australia, the naturalist and historiographer of the expedition, the late director of the Irish geological survey, opened his narrative at Cape Capricorn, in latitude 23J degrees south. Close to that cape, a little to the north, he also described the islands in Keppel Bay, and the bold promontory of the same name. Little did either of the scientific men engaged on that survey imagine that at the foot of the mountains, which on the northern side shut in the beautiful bay, a river as large as the Thames was pouring its waters into the Pacific Ocean. This great river was discovered many years afterwards, by one of the enterprising band of squatters who gradually took up country more and more distant from v the centres of civilisation in the colonies, and penetrated into the unknown territory of the "Blacks." Long before Queensland had separated from New South Wales, the Messrs. Archer had fixed upon the J. Beete Jukes, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. rich land near the present town of Rockhampton, and had formed their beautiful station of Gracemere, on the banks of a broad lagoon. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Charles Archer, in the course of his rides through the bush, had come upon the banks of a tidal river, about 400 yards wide, and of great depth. He procured a boat, and launched it upon the water, and thus, following the windings of the stream, he eventually came out in Keppel Bay, with its rocky islands protecting the shores from the storms of the Pacific. Further investigations led to the discovery that this river, which was named the Fitzroy, received the waters of the Comet, the Mackenzie, the Dawson, and many other smaller streams which...