An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 |
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acres agricultural alluvial land amount Australian colonies banks baptism Bathurst Bega river Bishop Brisbane Britain British bushels Cape cattle character city of Sydney Clarence Clarence River Clement Hodgkinson clergy climate coast colonists colony considerable cotton Council course Creek cultivation Dieman's Land discovery distance district Dungog emigration England erected establishment export extent feet formed gold Government harbour Hunter's River important inhabitants inlet Institution interior Island labour latitude locality Lord Goderich Macleay River maize ment miles ministers Moreton Bay Moruya River mountains Murray Murray River native navigable northward Pacific Parramatta period plains plants population Port Jackson Port Macquarie Port Phillip portion Presbyterian present produce Protestant quantity quartz respectable rock settlement sheep Sir Richard Bourke Sir Thomas Mitchell soil South Wales southward streams territory timber tion tobacco town tract trees Turon Turon River valley westward whole wine wool Yass
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Page 203 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page v - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 146 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 462 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 409 - This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me ; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Page 372 - And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.
Page 299 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 43 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey...
Page 236 - Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him, and the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great : for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants...
Page 352 - Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field ; and afterwards build thine house.