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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...LOMOND. 197 continues: "I have seen Jackey (then ten years old), driving the plough at your farm, and have expressed to you my admiration of his shrewdness and intelligence, and my hope that under the care and kindness with which both he and little Benny are evidently treated by your family, they would one day become useful members of society." He wished that all the children at Flinders were similarly placed. Ultimately Mr. Robinson gained his end. I have in my possession, through the favour of Mr. Weire, Town Clerk of Geelong, who married Mr. Batman's daughter Eliza, the little memorandum book in which the leader of the roving party kept his Journal, from March 3d to September 29th, 1830. Outside, it is directed from his farm, Kingston. A slight analysis of this Journal will illustrate the labours of the man. The scene is laid about Ben Lomond. This grand pile of rocks lies toward the north-eastern corner of Tasmania, and is the source of the North Esk and South Esk, whose waters unite at Launceston. The district is one of great interest to the geologist. It is about twenty-six years ago since I had the pleasure of travelling through it on my way to the East Coast. Leaving the neighbouring farm to that where Mr. Batman lived in the olden times, I traversed the carboniferous and Silurian county of Fingal, crossing several creeks that had cut through the bituminous coal, and glancing at the quartz veins of the pakeozoic rocks from which the gold is now extracted. The granite succeeds, and carries one on to the shore. Overflowing these various formations, and presenting most fantastic appearances when prismatic, there is the greenstone. This ancient igneous rock constitutes the huge bulk of Ben Lomond, which I found to be a table nearly eight miles...
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- PublisherRediscovery Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1905748124
- ISBN 13 9781905748129
- BindingPaperback
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LAST OF THE TASMANIANS, or The Black War of Van Diemenâ s Land
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Rediscovery Books
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ISBN 10: 1905748124
ISBN 13: 9781905748129
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Book Description 2006 reprint by Rediscovery Books SBPublished Price £18 Composed by James Bonwick, an Englishman who spent much of his life in Australia, this is a sympathetic work that documents the history of the Tasmanian people, with references from a variety of sources and including several illustrations. The Black War is a term used to describe a period of conflict between British Colonists and Tasmanian Aborigines in the early nineteenth century, the conflict had such impact on the Tasmanian Aboriginal population that they were reported to have been exterminated. Seller Inventory # 9207
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