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i-'-.ml-.Ml' ■.-,.■:,'.„:-,; ....... .'.■. . I: O,YSTER,BA¥„ EAST COAST'OF -..;,;,..:': ]..'■,. Tasmania;: ..:."■■■■
j 'This, view represents Oysterjßay, with the fMoufeniilslandj, fourteen; miles distantjiin '; JPreycinet's Pe'nnisula,- a lofty range in the ;mainland,extending.'northerly to;-,the jDouglan River,! to the left of the island '; \ and - in the distance to the right; a glimpse of-the northern end- of Maria'lsland,,with Water-, ;looipoint;-Bhowing.parfc,of;the little, township :of iSwansea in front.";;On some of the-slopes (therel are immense 'beds-ofi.oyster shells,■closely- embedded!together,- in t millions] of tons, having undergone no process of ohange. It was fat-Maria-Island thatiTasman landed when be first discovered Tasmania, and it was ho who namediit.''Vessels bound for Launces: ton -from HobartTown sometimes sail irisidp, the < Schoutehilsland, andi-through ; '!the passage "-to the north.- Swansea is oneof .the [oldest townships iin the colony, , i \ .'.,,,:,'
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 980, 21 January 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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121OUR ILLUSTRATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 980, 21 January 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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