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Other material in this issue includes:
First Page Picture: 'William Dampier - The First Englishman to Set Foot on Australia' [33].
Poetry: 'The Solitary Reaper' by English poet, William Wordsworth (q.v.), 47-48.
History: 'The Discovery of Western Port by Surgeon Bass, January 4, 1798' (unattributed), with extracts from A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814) by Matthew Flinders (q.v.) and photographs of Western Port Bay, 35-39; 'Matthew Flinders in Port Phillip Bay : His Ascent of Station Peak' (unattributed), with extracts from Flinders' Voyage, a map of Port Phillip and Western Port (1801), and a sketch : 'Geelong in 1842 - The You Yangs in the Distance', 40-44.
Contents
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According to a note at the end of this extract, '[t]he incident that [Grey] relates occurred near the Prince Regent River, north-west of Western Australia, in 1838.'
(p. 45-47)
My Native Landi"Home of the happy and the free, native land, my native land",single work lyric/song
(p. 48)