. Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 [microform] : official catalogue. Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : London, England); Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : Londres, Angleterre); Exhibitions; Agriculture; Natural resources; Expositions; Agriculture; Ressources naturelles. acres, â¢Â»* Lie In every at all tbe Patent BORTEB. â ee ViBitors [nery at their [lemente ttaey oommunioate IpLOUGHS Ir all Countries, >ollt, and Uiei. ALL KINDS rpPLICATlON NEW SOUTH WALES. In tbose brief pagoa it ia only proposod to givo a Hhort aooount of Now Huuth Wiikn, the great "Mother Colony"
. Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 [microform] : official catalogue. Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : London, England); Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : Londres, Angleterre); Exhibitions; Agriculture; Natural resources; Expositions; Agriculture; Ressources naturelles. acres, â¢Â»* Lie In every at all tbe Patent BORTEB. â ee ViBitors [nery at their [lemente ttaey oommunioate IpLOUGHS Ir all Countries, >ollt, and Uiei. ALL KINDS rpPLICATlON NEW SOUTH WALES. In tbose brief pagoa it ia only proposod to givo a Hhort aooount of Now Huuth Wiikn, the great "Mother Colony" from which has sprung all the other English ilopoudoncios of Auttrnlonia. Without going into any detailod accounts of the voyages of the oorly Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese navigators iu the waters of the Paoiflo, it is snflSoient to recall the fact, that tho lint Unglishman who behold the Australian coast was the world-ronowned buccaneer, William Dtuupier, one of tho greatest of English seamen. Dampier merely saw a portion of the northern coast of the vast Island-Continent, and the present generation of "Australian Eoglish" owe littlo to that erratic seafaring genius, inasmuch as his adverse reix>rt retarded Nttjcment for many years. Ho briefly denounced the country as a desert, and the inliabitants u tho most wretched savages on the face of the earth, a character which subsequent ethno* logists have been only too ready to endorse. It was not until tho year 1770 tliat Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay, and, unfurling tho British flag, took possession of tho Island-Continent iu tho name of the British Grown. This TO8 in the roigu of George III., n reign ill-starred, in that England then lost fur ever her great North American colonies; but during which also, by her unconquerable supromaoy at sea, she was enabled to compensate herself for her losses in the Atlnntio by new and glorious acquisitions in the Paoific. Fitly, therefore, does Captain Cook's monument
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