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id: 26552
author: Benson, Albert H.
title: Fruits of Queensland
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  The writer has no wish to infer that there are big profits to be made by growing fruit, but, at the same time, he has no hesitation in saying that where the industry is conducted in an up-to-date manner, on business lines, a good living can be made, and that there is a good opening for many who are now badly in want of employment. Here all kinds of tree life is rapid, and fruit trees come into bearing much sooner than they do in colder climates.


id: 36340
author: Bryde, C. W.
title: From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush
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sentence: 2107
flesch: 86
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  Terry O'Gorman had come back to his place by this time, doing a bit more falling, and it was quite like old times again, for, of course, the three of us camped together. Never once did she hit Melbourne, where the only girl in the world was, which was a sad disappointment; but still we lived well, had good times, and made good money--indeed, more than I was formerly getting as a deep-water mate.


id: 27099
author: Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)
title: Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869
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  For about twelve months after that I closely studied every phase of the phenomenon, and during that time I discovered good water for many residents in the district. After marking several sites on the station, when passing through Brisbane later, on my way to Cowley Station on the same errand, I interviewed Messrs. Philp and Forsyth, who told me there had been a well sunk on my site and no water obtained, but that the contractor had sunk a three-inch bore, where my peg was, and had obtained good water for his camp use.


id: 4521
author: Jardine, Frank Lascelles
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title:
  Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland

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  They had not seen a rise even, in any direction for miles, whilst the creek presented only occasional rocks of flat water-worn sandstone, and the screw-palm 'Pandanus Spiralis' occurred in all the water-courses, a tree that from its peculiarity would scarcely have been unnoticed or undescribed. Not a tree relieved the monotony of this waste, and what was worse, not a blade of grass was seen for miles.


id: 51704
author: Munro, Colin
title: Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 2
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words: 59394
sentence: 1938
flesch: 64
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  After he left the store with Billing Mr. Rainsfield gave particular instructions that the flocks should be well watched; and he anxiously waited for the approach of night. You had better not stop Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Tom; leave us now, and we'll say good-bye.


id: 27169
author: Munro, Colin
title: Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 1
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flesch: 53
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  Mr. John Rainsfield, the proprietor of the station, was a gentleman of about two-and-thirty years of age; his appearance was what might be called gentlemanly; though, while being perhaps prepossesing, having nothing about it to attract any particular attention. How often do young men of similar temperament indulge in the same enticing speculations, and allow themselves to be carried away by the blissful creations of a fertile fancy; alas! only to awake from the intoxication of their delightful dream, to realize the pangs of a bitter disappointment, and a total dispersion of all their brightest hopes.


id: 37559
author: Munro, Colin
title: Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3
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sentence: 2152
flesch: 62
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  It more than convinced him that his friend Tom was right when he said that Eleanor Rainsfield could never be happy with Bob Smithers. The hand of Eleanor Rainsfield was so much desired in the mazy dance that John sought in vain for an opportunity of soliciting a participation with her in the pleasures of the evening, or even of entering into conversation with her, until she had danced with nearly all the gentlemen in the room.


id: 38649
author: Palmer, Edward
title: Early Days in North Queensland
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  From the Cloncurry through the Gregory to the Nicholson River is all good cattle country, but the grass seed along the banks of the watercourses, and the flooded nature of parts of the country in the rainy seasons, render it unfit for profitable sheep-farming. It helped to find markets for stock of all kinds and employment for thousands, and also to extend the settlement of the land and open up commerce with other countries, introducing immigrants or diggers, many of whom remained and settled in the country.


id: 36399
author: Weitemeyer, Thorvald Peter Ludwig
title: Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880)
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  They were all men in their prime, and if they did not work above their strength they were good men assuredly! They had simply taken in the situation more quickly than we; indeed it has become nearly a proverb in Queensland to say that a German will grow fat where other men will starve.


id: 5113
author: Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
title: The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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words: 113586
sentence: 5013
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  Its precociousness is so great and its productiveness so lavish, that by the time other trees flaunt their first blossoms, the papaw has worn itself out, and is dying of senile decay, leaving, however, numerous posterity. Small birds as well as lusty pigeons, spiders and all manner of insects; flies, bees, beetles, moths and mosquitoes, as well as the seeds of other trees are ensnared.


id: 39495
author: Queensland
title: Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information
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sentence: 5191
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  [but it must be stated that only part of the data for the years 1907 and 1908 is to hand]:-- ----------------------------+----------+-----------+--------------+-------- | Artesian | Pumped | Progress | Sunk by | Flows. | Increases, 1908. ------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------ CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ | CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ | CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ General Rates 46,208 | General Rates 150,744 | General Rates 104,536 | | Separate 4,845 | Separate} | Separate or | } 87,155 | Special 7,583 | Special } |


id: 9943
author: Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone)
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title:
  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)

summary:
  At one place even the white-barked gum trees appeared; but, although they had the character of river trees, we found they grew on an elevated piece of clay soil. We had not prolonged our journey very far across the plains, keeping the trees of the river we had left visible on our right, when another line of river trees appeared over the downs on our left.


