Handbook of Western Australia


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THE


HANDBOOK


OF


WESTERN AUSTRALIA,


BY


The Reverend C. G. Nicolay,

FELLOW OF KING'S AND QUEEN'S COLLEGES, LONDON.



PERTH:
BY AUTHORITY: RICHARD PETHER, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

1880.

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Perth, showing the principal public buildings.

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To His Excellency

GOVERNOR Sir Wm. C. F. ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.,

etc., etc., etc.


Sir,—In fulfilment of the trust which I had the honour to receive from you, I have completed the M.S. for a Hand-book of Western Australia, in which I have endeavoured to carry out your instructions and to make it as generally useful as the space to which it was limited would permit.

There has been much difficulty in the selection of materials, still more in deciding what might be omitted. I can scarcely hope to have been altogether successful, but I shall be well satisfied if I obtain your approval, and if I have succeeded in affording such information about the Colony as those having interest or desiring to settle in it might require, and which is not to be found elsewhere.

I have the honour to be,
Your obliged and obedient Servant,
C. G. NICOLAY.

Perth, 31st August, 1877.

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Appendix„ B.—Sericulture
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Appendix„ C.—Exports, 1877
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Appendix„ D.—Horses for India
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Appendix„ E.—Analysis of Guano from Lacepede Islands
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Appendix„ F.—Report on Mines
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Appendix„ G.—Notes relative to Assisted Immigration
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Land Regulations for the Kimberley District
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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Perth, showing the principal public buildings (Photo., Chopin)
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Falls of the Serpentine, over granitic and gneissic rock from face of Darling Range (Photo. from drawing by C. H. Prinsep)
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St. Mary's Lake, as type of estuary of river, but with West Mt. Barren and Mt. Bland, masses of quartz schist in the distance (Photo. from sketch)
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The Swan, from tram road below Fremantle Bridge, showing outlines of coast limestone (Photo. from sketch)
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Glengarry, the first sheep station on the Greenough River, showing the dry bed with pools (Photo. from sketch)
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Roe's Rock, Fitzgerald River, from above Buto's pool, showing escarpment of sandstone rising from granitic rock (Photo. from sketch)
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These six give the principal outlines as well as the geological formations of the colony, and both will be found in accordance throughout it.

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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