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... Sydney by sending more than 200 convicts in the Sirius and the Supply to Norfolk Island where a tiny group of convicts settled there since early 1788 had been farming successfully . In Sydney , weekly rations were reduced to 4 lb. of ...
... Sydney by sending more than 200 convicts in the Sirius and the Supply to Norfolk Island where a tiny group of convicts settled there since early 1788 had been farming successfully . In Sydney , weekly rations were reduced to 4 lb. of ...
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... Sydney and other towns , and confirmed the urban nature of Australian society . In 1850 , nearly one - third of the population of New South Wales - 265,503 people in all -lived in Sydney . The rest were widely dispersed over more than ...
... Sydney and other towns , and confirmed the urban nature of Australian society . In 1850 , nearly one - third of the population of New South Wales - 265,503 people in all -lived in Sydney . The rest were widely dispersed over more than ...
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... Sydney to test his hunch . Arriving at the beginning of 1851 , he immediately set off for Bathurst where a local youth , John Lister , helped him to locate the creek he remembered . With the first trowel - full of earth he washed in it ...
... Sydney to test his hunch . Arriving at the beginning of 1851 , he immediately set off for Bathurst where a local youth , John Lister , helped him to locate the creek he remembered . With the first trowel - full of earth he washed in it ...
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Penal Settlement to Pastoral Colony | 14 |
Assisted Passages | 25 |
Convicts and Settlers | 38 |
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