Discoveries in Australia, Band 2T. and W. Boone, 1846 |
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Abrolhos anchorage anchored appeared Australia bank Barrow's Island Beagle bearing Bentinck Island birds boats breeze Bynoe Cape Captain Captain Grey Champion Bay cliffs coast Coepang colour continent coral dark depth Depuch Island direction distance east eastern eastward extending fathoms feet high flat Flinders forming Grey Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria Gun Island half harbour head high water hills hour Inlet islets kangaroo land latitude low water mammæ mangroves morning Mount Fairfax natives nearly neighbourhood night north-east north-west northward observations party passed patches plain Point Pearce Port Essington Quoin Island Range Rat Island reach reef remarkable rocky Rottee round sand sandy seen Sharks Bay shewed ship shoal shore side soundings south-east south-west southward spear spot squalls stream Swan River three miles tide Timor trees Turtle valley Victoria Victoria River wallaby westerly westward whilst winds
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Seite 6 - The other rocks near it were of a fine-grained sandstone: a new feature in the geology of this part of the continent, which afforded us an appropriate opportunity of convincing an old shipmate and friend, that he still lived in our memory; and we accordingly named this sheet of water Port Darwin.
Seite 530 - May is the month in which the winter weather fairly sets in, and it rarely happens that the middle of this month passes without the rains having commenced. This season seems to vary but little as to the time and manner of setting in — it is ushered in by blowing weather, from about NNE, the wind gradually veering round to the westward, as it increases in strength. The first of this weather usually lasts from a week to fourteen days ; then comes an interval of fine weather, generally of a fortnight's...
Seite 172 - These savages of Australia, as we call them, who have adorned the rocks of Depuch Island with their drawings, have in one thing proved themselves superior to the Egyptian and the Etruscan, whose works have elicited so much admiration and afforded food to so many speculations — namely, there is not in them to be observed the slightest trace of indecency.
Seite 97 - Essington that I thought this anything but some Australian mother's toy to amuse her child: there I was asked, one day, to go and see the "bird's playhouse...