witches in A Colonial Tramp
n a Titanic scale. We now come to the highest point on our journey — Victoria, 8,422 feet above sea-level— where we find English trees growing in unity with Australian produce — the chest- nut, oak, hawthorn, elm, poplar, pine, bunya-bunya, &c. We can see from here most extensive views, embracing M…
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- A Colonial Tramp; Hume Nisbet
- Published
- 1891
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- Federation Era
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- Australia (Australia): B
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n a Titanic scale. We now come to the highest point on our journey — Victoria, 8,422 feet above sea-level— where we find English trees growing in unity with Australian produce — the chest- nut, oak, hawthorn, elm, poplar, pine, bunya-bunya, &c. We can see from here most extensive views, embracing Mounts Tomato, Clarence, Wilson, and York, with the Fairy and Witches* Glens. We are now going down the great Zig-zag, and upon Lithgow, the mining quarters, where coal, iron, copper, and other minerals are worked, and fine clay, terra cotta, &c, found. Lithgow we do not see much of, as it is almost dark when we get there ; enough,.
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