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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:25 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:25
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Details
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:26 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:26
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Details
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:28 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:28
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Details
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:27 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:27
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:26 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:26
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Details
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"Cape Horn or touched at Melbourne, I cannot say; all I know is, that I suffered n six"
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:26 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:26
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:28 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:28
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:27 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:27
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:27 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:27
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:28 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:28
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:29 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:29
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:28 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:28
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:30 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:30
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:29 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:29
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:29 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:29
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:29 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:29
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:30 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:30
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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Details
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TLCMap IDte1f35
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:31 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:31
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"one the Maitland Mercury, long established, and well known throughout the Hunter River"
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TLCMap IDte1f3d
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:33 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:33
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:32 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:32
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:32 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:32
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Details
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TLCMap IDte1f3c
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:33 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:33
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Details
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TLCMap IDte1f48
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:36 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:36
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:34 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:34
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TLCMap IDte1f40
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:34 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:34
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TLCMap IDte1f3f
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:34 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:34
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Details
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"however, at Anvil Creek, at the entrance of the village, forms an exception."
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TLCMap IDte1f3e
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:34 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:34
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:35 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:35
Details
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TLCMap IDte1f47
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:36 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:36
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"Plains, on to Singleton."
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:35 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:35
Details
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TLCMap IDte1f4f
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:38 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:38
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TLCMap IDte1f4c
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:37 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:37
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:36 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:36
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TLCMap IDte1f4a
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:36 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:36
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"day prior to my arrival by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle."
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TLCMap IDte1f4e
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:38 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:38
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TLCMap IDte1f4b
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:37 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:37
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TLCMap IDte1f51
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:38 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:38
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:37 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:37
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"traveller to Muswellbrook."
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TLCMap IDte1f52
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:38 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:38
Details
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"leaving Scone, I again crossed the Hunter, but here it had dwindled down to a mere brook,"
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:40 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:40
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:40 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:40
Details
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:39 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:39
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Details
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Created At2025-09-05 15:08:39 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:39
Details
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"best way I could against the biting cold until I reached Scone, a distance of about eight"
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TLCMap IDte1f54
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:39 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:39
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Details
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TLCMap IDte1f53
Created At2025-09-05 15:08:39 Updated At2025-09-05 15:08:39
Details
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"Miller's Point, Dawes' Point, and Pinchgut are
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TLCMap IDte1f5a
Created At2025-09-05 15:13:09 Updated At2025-09-05 15:13:09
Details
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Description
"Miller's Point, Dawes' Point, and Pinchgut are
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TLCMap IDte1f5b
Created At2025-09-05 15:17:36 Updated At2025-09-05 15:17:37
Details
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"Miller's Point, Dawes' Point, and Pinchgut are
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TLCMap IDte1f5c
Created At2025-09-05 15:20:43 Updated At2025-09-05 15:20:43
Details
Latitude-33.85005227130244 Longitude151.24630516419128
Description
"Miller's Point, Dawes' Point, and Pinchgut are
soon passed, and now we round Bradley's Head."
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TLCMap IDte1f5e
Created At2025-09-05 15:22:03 Updated At2025-09-05 15:22:03
Details
Latitude-33.85005227130244 Longitude151.24630516419128
Description
"Miller's Point, Dawes' Point, and Pinchgut are
soon passed, and now we round Bradley's Head."
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TLCMap IDte1f5d
Created At2025-09-05 15:22:03 Updated At2025-09-05 15:22:03
Details
Latitude-33.83004374423123 Longitude151.27471782579818
Description
"We rolled, and rolled, and rolled, till we rolled outside the
Heads, and then my talkative friend, in a state of intense excitement, jumped upon the
seat, and informed me that the -- , some steamer -- for I was in no state of mind, or
rather of stomach, to heed names -- was passing."
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TLCMap IDte1f5f
Created At2025-09-05 15:23:44 Updated At2025-09-05 15:23:44
Details
Latitude-31.81509078 Longitude150.8344728
Description
"Turning my
back with regret upon this beautiful mountain home, its rich vegetation, and its fragrant
air, I again made my way to the northward, and a few miles brought me by good, though
ascending, road to the foot of the pass at Warland's Ranges."
Extended Data
- offset
- 22807
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TLCMap IDte1f60
Created At2025-09-05 15:54:00 Updated At2025-09-05 15:54:00
Details
Latitude-33.83004374 Longitude151.2747178
Description
"To oblige him, I got up to look, and ~~
the rest of the passage to Newcastle was a frightful blank, and whether we went round by
Cape Horn or touched at Melbourne, I cannot say; all I know is, that I suffered n six
months' agony intensified into that short passage from Sydney Heads to Newcastle."
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TLCMap IDte1f9e
Created At2025-09-19 07:26:22 Updated At2025-09-19 07:26:22
Details
Latitude-32.91857249 Longitude151.7982847
Description
"Nobby's-island as it used to be, but now degraded into a mere promonotory by the break-
water or causeway which joins it to the main land, and forms the standing grievance of
the Newcastle folks, from its always wanting something done to it, or from something
that has been done not having been done properly, -- Nobby's is a prominent feature in
the view of Newcastle, and as the vessel draws off the shore, on her departure up the
Hunter, helps to form a very pleasing picture worthy the artist's pencil."
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TLCMap IDte1f9f
Created At2025-09-19 07:32:05 Updated At2025-09-19 07:32:05
Details
Latitude-32.91857249 Longitude151.7982847
Description
"Nobby's-island as it used to be, but now degraded into a mere promonotory by the break-
water or causeway which joins it to the main land, and forms the standing grievance of
the Newcastle folks, from its always wanting something done to it, or from something
that has been done not having been done properly, -- Nobby's is a prominent feature in
the view of Newcastle, and as the vessel draws off the shore, on her departure up the
Hunter, helps to form a very pleasing picture worthy the artist's pencil."
Sources
TLCMap IDte1fa0
Created At2025-09-19 07:32:48 Updated At2025-09-19 07:32:48
Details
Latitude-32.73444444 Longitude151.5788889
Description
"Nobby's-island as it used to be, but now degraded into a mere promonotory by the break-
water or causeway which joins it to the main land, and forms the standing grievance of
the Newcastle folks, from its always wanting something done to it, or from something
that has been done not having been done properly, -- Nobby's is a prominent feature in
the view of Newcastle, and as the vessel draws off the shore, on her departure up the
Hunter, helps to form a very pleasing picture worthy the artist's pencil."
Sources
TLCMap IDte1fa1
Created At2025-09-19 07:36:37 Updated At2025-09-19 07:36:37
Details
Latitude-32.91857249 Longitude151.7982847
Description
"Exposed to the
wildest fury of the waves, which burst thundering upon her face, or crawl insidiously up
her crags, and the waves breaking in huge rollers on the sand bank at her foot, Nobby's
forms the left of the picture; Newcastle, with its houses apparently terraced on the face of
a verdant hill, and sloping down at a lengthened angle until joined by the causeway to
Nobby's, forms the centre; whilst to the right are the coal wharves, with the colliers lying
thick as bees waiting their turns to come under the schutes for their loading, and the dark
swampy flats, over which the roofs of the railway buildings are barely discernible, though
the line of rail is traceable by the puffs of steam that rise from some locomotive at work
upon the line."
Sources
TLCMap IDte1fa2
Created At2025-09-19 07:37:17 Updated At2025-09-19 07:37:17
Details
Latitude-32.91857249 Longitude151.7982847
Description
"Exposed to the
wildest fury of the waves, which burst thundering upon her face, or crawl insidiously up
her crags, and the waves breaking in huge rollers on the sand bank at her foot, Nobby's
forms the left of the picture; Newcastle, with its houses apparently terraced on the face of
a verdant hill, and sloping down at a lengthened angle until joined by the causeway to
Nobby's, forms the centre; whilst to the right are the coal wharves, with the colliers lying
thick as bees waiting their turns to come under the schutes for their loading, and the dark
swampy flats, over which the roofs of the railway buildings are barely discernible, though
the line of rail is traceable by the puffs of steam that rise from some locomotive at work
upon the line."
Sources
TLCMap IDte1fa3
Created At2025-09-19 07:37:44 Updated At2025-09-19 07:37:44
Details
Latitude-32.73444444 Longitude151.5788889
Description
"After waiting the usual time to discharge and take in cargo, the good ship Williams once
more set in motion, and turned her head up the Hunter."
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TLCMap IDte1fa4
Created At2025-09-19 07:39:23 Updated At2025-09-19 07:39:23
Details
Latitude-32.73444444 Longitude151.5788889
Description
"The banks of the Hunter are the same
all the way up to Morpeth, and are low and swampy throughout."
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TLCMap IDte1fa5
Created At2025-09-19 07:40:19 Updated At2025-09-19 07:40:20
Details
Latitude-32.746548 Longitude151.581166
Description
"Ten years have passed away since I last visited Maitland, and great changes have been
effected in both East and West Maitland during those years, though the latter has
improved to a much greater extent than the former."
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TLCMap IDte1fa6
Created At2025-09-19 07:45:44 Updated At2025-09-19 07:45:44
Details
Latitude-32.727146 Longitude151.543129
Description
"The high street forms a very nearly continuous row
of houses from Wallis Creek to the Long Bridge of over a mile in length."
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TLCMap IDte1fa7
Created At2025-09-19 07:48:30 Updated At2025-09-19 07:48:30
Details
Latitude-32.69581 Longitude151.4100037
Description
"Between Lochinvar and Black Creek, the next
village, the road made some years back passes over Harper's Hill, a name somewhat
famed in days gone bye for the predatory exploits of bushrangers."
Extended Data
- offset
- 13141
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TLCMap IDte1fa8
Created At2025-09-19 07:53:43 Updated At2025-09-19 07:53:43
Details
Latitude-31.99842226 Longitude151.0011393
Description
"The road now gradually descended, in gradients far less
heavy than marked the ascent, until at lost it reached the valley of the Page."
Extended Data
- offset
- 23814
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TLCMap IDte1fa9
Created At2025-09-19 07:58:25 Updated At2025-09-19 07:58:25
Details
Latitude-32.46124433 Longitude151.1067263
Description
"Passing Glennie's Creek, also a
very dangerous spot in time of flood, eight miles of good mountain road brought me to
another inn, situated on the bank of a small creek, which was bridged over, and in the
midst of an undulating lightly timbered country."
Extended Data
- offset
- 17924
Sources
TLCMap IDte1faa
Created At2025-09-19 08:25:21 Updated At2025-09-19 08:25:21
