Two Expeditions Into The Interior Of Southern Australia
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781419191473
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Expeditions & Discoveries; History; History - General History; Central Europe; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Australia & Oceania - Australia; Europe - Austria & Hungary
First sentence: "For though most men are contented only to see a river as it runs by them, and talk of the changes in it as they happen; when it is troubled, or when clear; when it drowns the country in a flood, or forsakes it in a drought: yet he that would know the nature of the water, and the causes of those accidents (so as to guess at their continuance or return), must find out its source, and observe with what strength it rises, what length it runs, and how many small streams fall in, and feed it to such a height, as make it either delightful or terrible to the eye, and useful or dangerous to the country about it."