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Charles Sturt. Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
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EXPEDITION DOWN THE MACQUARIE RIVER, AND INTO THE WESTERN INTERIOR IN 1828 AND 1829
APPENDIX TO THE FIRST VOLUME
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
VOLUME II. EXPEDITION DOWN THE MORUMBIDGEE AND MURRAY RIVERS, IN 1829, 1830 AND 1831
APPENDIX TO THE SECOND VOLUME
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SECOND VOLUME
TWO EXPEDITIONS
INTO THE INTERIOR OF. SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA
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NATIVE BURIAL PLACE NEAR BUDDA. TO THE RIGHT HON., THE EARL OF RIPON,
VISCOUNT GODERICH, LORD PRIVY SEAL, &c. &c. &c
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER
EXPEDITION
DOWN THE BANKS OF THE. MACQUARIE RIVER
In 1828 and 1829. CHAPTER I
CATARACT OF THE MACQUARIE
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THE ROSE COCKATOO
CHAPTER II
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THE CRESTED PIGEON OF THE MARSHES
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS
APPENDIX
No. I. LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
No. II. LIST OF STORES SUPPLIED FOR THE EXPEDITION
No. III. SHEEP-FARMING RETURNS, SHOWING THE INCREASE IN FOUR YEARS, from two Breeding Flocks, consisting of 670 Ewes in Lamb
Account of Expenditure and Income upon Sheep Stock in Australia, appended to Returns A. BC D. and E
No. IV. LIST OF GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, COLLECTED IN THE DISTANT INTERIOR DURING THE FIRST EXPEDITION, WITH THEIR LOCALITIES AND THEIR RELATIVE DISTANCES FROM EACH OTHER
A SELENITE. CHRYSTALLIZED SULPHATE OF LIME
No. V. OFFICIAL REPORTS TO THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT ORDER
GOVERNMENT ORDER
TWO EXPEDITIONS
INTO THE INTERIOR OF. SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA
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EXPEDITION
DOWN THE. MORUMBIDGEE AND MURRAY RIVERS,
In 1829, 1830 and 1831. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
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VIEW ON THE MORUMBIDGEE RIVER
CHAPTER IV
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JUNCTION OF THE SUPPOSED DARLING WITH THE MURRAY
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
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PALAEORNIS MELANURA. BLACK TAILED PAROQUET
1. POMATORHINUS TEMPORALIS. 2. POMATORHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS
CONCLUDING REMARKS
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CHAPTER VIII
APPENDIX
No. I. GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FOUND TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF PORT JACKSON
ROCK FORMATION OF THE COAST RANGE OF ST. VINCENT'S GULF
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No. II. OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT ORDER
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Charles Sturt
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The open and grassy forests of Argyle are terminated by another of those abrupt sand-stone passes I have just described, and the traveller again falls considerably from his former level, previously to his entering on Yass Plains, to which this pass is the only inlet.
From Yass Plains the view to the S. and S.W. is over a lofty and broken country: mountains with rounded summits, others with towering peaks, and others again of lengthened form but sharp spine, characterise the various rocks of which they are composed. The ranges decline rapidly from east to west, and while on the one hand the country has all the appearance of increasing height, on the other it sinks to a dead level; nor on the distant horizon to the N. W. is there a hill or an inequality to be seen.
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