The Story of Our Colonies: with Sketches of Their Present ConditionJ. Hogg & Son, 1869 - 411 páginas |
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... Gold Discoveries in Victoria - Later Progress of the Colony ; Copper , Wool , Wheat , and Wine -Its Present Condition . [ 1822-1869 . ] . · PAGE 219 233 243 260 CHAPTER XXIII . VICTORIA . The Establishment of Port Phillip.
... Gold Discoveries in Victoria - Later Progress of the Colony ; Copper , Wool , Wheat , and Wine -Its Present Condition . [ 1822-1869 . ] . · PAGE 219 233 243 260 CHAPTER XXIII . VICTORIA . The Establishment of Port Phillip.
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... Gold Dis- coveries - The Ballarat Gold - Fields - The Consequences of the Discovery - The Progress of Victoria - Melbourne in 1856 - The Ballarat Outbreak - Political Changes in Vic- toria . [ 1851-1869 . ] • PAGE 276 CHAPTER XXIV . NEW ...
... Gold Dis- coveries - The Ballarat Gold - Fields - The Consequences of the Discovery - The Progress of Victoria - Melbourne in 1856 - The Ballarat Outbreak - Political Changes in Vic- toria . [ 1851-1869 . ] • PAGE 276 CHAPTER XXIV . NEW ...
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... , in the principal Land - Selling Colonies - Price of Food and Rates of Wages in the principal Colonies , III . Our Colonial Gold - Fields , INDEX , . PAGE 381 382 396 401 THE STORY OF OUR COLONIES . CHAPTER I. OUR EARLIEST xiv CONTENTS .
... , in the principal Land - Selling Colonies - Price of Food and Rates of Wages in the principal Colonies , III . Our Colonial Gold - Fields , INDEX , . PAGE 381 382 396 401 THE STORY OF OUR COLONIES . CHAPTER I. OUR EARLIEST xiv CONTENTS .
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... gold ; pearls and pre- cious stones ; spices and dyes , such as no gold in Europe could buy ; horses with six legs a - piece , and two - headed ostriches ; giants twenty feet high , and dwarfs not two spans long ; fountains of perpetual ...
... gold ; pearls and pre- cious stones ; spices and dyes , such as no gold in Europe could buy ; horses with six legs a - piece , and two - headed ostriches ; giants twenty feet high , and dwarfs not two spans long ; fountains of perpetual ...
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... gold and pearls and precious stones , which rewarded Columbus and his comrades for their daring enterprise , was seen by Cabot and his hardy followers . Instead , they found a bleak and rocky country , on which very few trees appeared ...
... gold and pearls and precious stones , which rewarded Columbus and his comrades for their daring enterprise , was seen by Cabot and his hardy followers . Instead , they found a bleak and rocky country , on which very few trees appeared ...
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