 | South Australian Land Company - 1831 - 50 Seiten
...selected for ship's spars and other purposes of ship-building. Twenty years ago an American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crew built a schooner in...little attention ; the distance to the beach is about three quarters of a mile, and from the beach to where ships anchor about four miles. This Lagoon is... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1835 - 736 Seiten
...selected for ship's spars and other purposes of ship-building. Twenty years ago an American ship was cast away on the coast, and -the crew built a schooner...little attention; the distance to the beach is about threeKANGAROO 1SLAND. — CL1MATE. 491 quarters of a mile, and from the beach to where ships anchor... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 406 Seiten
...selected for ships' spars and other purposes of ship-building. Twenty years ago, an American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crew built a schooner in Lagoon Say, which enabled them to get away, after a residence of several months on the island. Salt is produced... | |
 | Esq. Samuel Butler - 1839 - 272 Seiten
...American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crew \)m\ta schooner in Lagoon bay, which eu.'ib'.ed them to get away, after a residence of several months...and from the beach to where ships anchor about four nilea. This lagoon is a perfect circle, of about three miles in circumference. The prospect here is... | |
 | Robert Stewart (A.M.) - 1853 - 774 Seiten
...selected for ships' spars, and other purposes of ship building. Twenty years ago an American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crew built a schooner in...beach is about three-quarters of a mile, and from the beech to where ships anchor about four miles. This lagoon is a perfect circle, of about three miles... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - 1904 - 1334 Seiten
...South Australia, that au American ship had been wrecked on the coast about 1811, and that the crew had built a schooner in Lagoon Bay, which enabled them...after a residence of several months on the island. * This fact induced Captain Sutherland to suggest that the timber around the bay was suitable for snip's... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - 1921 - 694 Seiten
...purpose* of ship-building. Twenty years ago an American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crews built a schooner in Lagoon Bay, which enabled them...island. Salt is produced here in abundance; I should sav between two and three hundred tons could be collected from the lagoon with a little attention.... | |
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Diemen's Land; some run exceedingly high and large in circumference, and may be converted into every domestic purpose as well as maritime, as many may be found and selected for ship's spars and other purposes of ship-building. Twenty years ago an American... 