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Early Tasmania : papers read before the Royal society of Tasmania during the years 1888 to 1899 / by James Backhouse Walder

Author
Walker, James Backhouse, 1841-1899
Published
Tasmania : H. H. Pimblelt, 1950.
Edition
3rd impression.
Physical Description
vii,289 pages : frontispiece(portrait)6fold. maps ; 22 cm
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Royal Society of Tasmania

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Contents
Biographical sketch [of the author] by the Rev. George Clark.--The French in Van Dieman's Land, and the first settlement at the Derwent.--The founding of Hobart by Lieut.-Gov. Collins.--The expedition under Lieut.-Gov. Collins of 1903-4.--The discovery and occupation of Port Dalrymple.--The discovery of Van Dieman's Land in 1642.--The deportation of the Norfolk Islanders to the Derwent in 1808.--Abel Janszoon Tasman--his life and voyages.--Notes on the aborigines of Tasmania ... from the ms. journals of George Washington Walker, with an introduction by J. B. Walker.--Some notes on the tribal divisions of the aboribines of Tasmania.--The Tasmanian aborigines.--The cartography of the Terra Australis and New Holland.
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