Charles Sturt

Explorer

1795-04-28

Books by Charles Sturt

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia

Enriched edition.
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Report of the cause between C. S., plaintiff, and ... the Marquis of Blandford afterwards Duke of Marlborough , defendant, for criminal conversation with ... Lady M. A. Sturt ... Third edition
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Report of the Cause Between Charles Sturt, Esq. Plaintiff, and the Marquis of Blandford, Defendant, for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife

Tried in the Court of the King's Bench, Westminster, on Wednesday, the 27th May 1801, Before Lord Kenyon, and a Special Jury : with a Preface and Appendix
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
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Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
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I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.
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In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.
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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
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The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
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