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	John Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764 to 1765
		John Murray (archbishop), (1877-1956), John Gregory Murray Archbishop of Saint Paul from 1931 to 1956
		John Murray (theologian), 1898-1975, Calvinist theologian, Presbyterian minister, professor at Princeton Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Murray (384 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Mu-My
		Murray was quiet and reserved in manner, sometimes giving the impression that he was cold and narrow in his outlook.
		Murray named the bay Port King, in honour of the governor, who, however, renamed it Port Phillip, and the eastern point at the entrance was called Point Nepean after the then secretary of the admiralty, Sir Evan Nepean.
		Murray was the leader of the Australasian delegates to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress held at Tokyo in 1926, and president of the meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science in 1932.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogMu-My.html (9638 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration appendix
		The remains of the explorers were eventually disinterred, and brought to Melbourne, where they were given a public funeral.
		Howitt was eventually sent back to disinter the remains of the explorers, and bring them to Melbourne, where they received a public funeral, and a statue was erected to their memory.
		Two surveyors dispatched by the South Australian Government in 1878 to reach the Queensland border from the overland telegraph line, it being a matter of moment to settle the position of the border line between the two colonies.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausexplore/ausexpl3-app14.html (7066 words)

	John Murray (Australian explorer) Biography on DanceAge
		In April 1803 Governor King received a dispatch informing him that the Navy Board had refused to give Murray a full commission because he had given false details of previous service in England and had not served the required full six years as had claimed.
		Murray returned to England in the Glatton in May 1803 never to return to Australia again.
		St J. Wilson, in his The Pioneers of Port Phillip, says that Murray rose to the rank of captain in the navy, and afterwards lost his life with a ship under his command outside Port Phillip heads but the authority for this statement could not be traced.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_John_Murray_(Australian_explorer) (690 words)

	Charles Sturt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The explorers tried to make off in their boat, but the tribesmen moved to head off the boat as it approached a narrow stretch of water.
		Sturt ordered his men to load their guns ready for war, when he noticed another party of aboriginals plunge into the river from the opposite bank and swim towards the hostile natives.
		A few days later, they found the point where the Murray flowed into the sea and since they could not sight any ships which might take them back to Sydney, they started their long journey rowing back to their depot on the Murrumbidgee.
	www.davidreilly.com.cob-web.org:8888 /australian_explorers/sturt/sturt.htm (1399 words)

	Australian Quotes & Notes - The Quotes - Ancient Times until 1850
		Dutch explorers were already nibbling at the northern and western coasts.
		Australian aborigines had been given a bad press by earlier explorers, especially William Dampier, on the west coast of the continent.
		What the motive or cause of this melancholy catastrophe we have not been able to discover; but from the civility shown on all occasions to the officers by the natives, whenever any of them were met, I am strongly inclined to think that they must have been provoked and injured by the convicts.
	www.australianquotes.com /quotes_ancientTimes-1850.html (17905 words)

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		The "Invention" of America Countless explorers, freebooters, adventurers, settlers, priests, and soldiers, drawn by the lure of the green lands, the gold, the slaves, the known and the unknown, followed in the wake of Columbus.
		The narratives of the early French explorers, from the predecessors of Jacques Cartier to Samuel de Champlain, were edited by the Canadian archivist H.P. Biggar and published in the early decades of this century.
		John Kirtland Wright's pioneering monograph concerning "The Geographical Lore of the Time of the Crusades: A Study in the History of Medieval Science and Tradition in Western Europe", published in 1925 by the American Geographical Society as No. 15 in its Research Series, was republished in 1965 with revisions by the author.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/art/WASHBR05.ART (7728 words)

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		Our story ends where Australian history, as it is generally written, begins; but the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made that beginning possible.
		One of the causes which led to this improvement in the class of seamen was the disgraceful behaviour of the crew of the _Wager_, a ship of Anson's squadron, when she was lost off the Horn in 1740.
		John Hunter was born at Leith in 1737, his father being a well-known shipmaster sailing out of that port, while his mother was of a good Edinburgh family, one of her brothers having served as provost of that city.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/9/9/12992/12992.txt (14671 words)

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		The Spaniards, having possessed themselves of America through the discoveries of Columbus and his successors, were still dissatisfied when they realized that this new continent was not the Orient whence their Portuguese rivals drew so rich a trade; and for many years they searched for a strait through it or a way round it.
		The evidence concerning Australian discovery before the seventeenth century is so clouded with doubt that it has been asserted to be unworthy of credence.
		The explorer himself lived on till 1659, but he was not again employed in discovery work, nor did he live to see his own brilliant exploits eclipsed by others of his nation.
	www.electricscotland.com /etexts/0200471.txt (16236 words)

	Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murray is a common variation of the word Moray, an anglicisation of the Medieval Gaelic word Muireb (or Moreb); the b here was pronounced as v, hence the Latinization to Moravia.
		The Murray spelling is no longer used for the geographical area, which is called Moray, but it became the commonest form of the surname, especially among Scottish emigrants, to the extent that the surname Murray is now much more common than the original surname Moray.
		Division of Murray, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murray (1826 words)

	Fast-growing koala population destroying Australian island, conservationists say North County Times - North San Diego ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Murray (II) used to give these wonderful dinners at the Albion Tavern and ply his booksellers with the best claret until they were tight and then he'd sell them masses of his books," his descendant told reporters Monday.
		Darwin tells John Murray III to print only 750 copies of "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" because of its limited interest.
		Murray said he was offering the archive to The National Library of Scotland because the first John Murray came from Edinburgh.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/03/02/backpage/3_1_0422_00_30.txt (4264 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: The State of Ocean Science
		Dominating this new science of the sea was Sir John Murray of the Challenger Expedition.
		In the following essay, Sir John Murray describes the then state of knowledge of the oceans of the world; and like Edward Forbes, many years before, ends his essay with a plea for funding, both from the government and private individuals for, not oceanic exploration, but the exploration of the Antarctic regions.
		The great event of the year, from a geographical point of view, is the progress that has been made towards the realization of a scheme for the thorough scientific exploration in the near future of the whole South Polar region.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /library/readings/science/science.html (7478 words)

	Tasmanian Sea Levels - Lessons from the Isle of the Dead
		The only proper basis for comparison is the average of the whole Australian coast, not selected locations, and that Australia-wide average, excluding sinking Adelaide, is +0.16 mm/yr, or 1.6 cm for the century.
		His friend, Governor Sir John Franklin, informed him that an official of the convict colony at Port Arthur, Thomas Lempriere, had been keeping tide measurements for some time and that perhaps that would afford a means of placing a sea level benchmark at Port Arthur.
		That would mean that (a) Ross was a liar, or (b) Lempriere did the job alone and struck the mark in a different place, or in a different way, to what Ross instructed, or (c) Ross had a lapse of memory about it all and misreported the whole episode in his book.
	www.john-daly.com /deadisle (9813 words)

	W John Murray - REALM OF REALITY 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Australian aborigine hurls his boomerang so that it will return with unerring accuracy to the hand which throws it.
		So long as the race spent its energies under the delusion that the earth was flat, one continent was ignorant of the existence of any other continent but itself; but when the Truth became apparent and men began to use time and thought in the pursuit of more Truth, continent was added to continent.
		The limited and bounded gave place to the unlimited and unbounded, and the explorer still sails and endures hardships because he knows that all has not yet been discovered.
	www.angelfire.com /wi2/ULCds/rr16.html (1766 words)

	Geocaching Australia - Free and Open Geocaching
		During these years he and his workmates were subject to the extremes of the Australian bush coping with the heat, cold, dust storms, rain, floods and flies and all the time his navigation, both solar and stellar, was crucial to their own safety and the success of the rocket range.
		Near the Murray, at the place that is now Albury, the explorers carved their names on a tree on 17 November 1824.
		This limestone bust is of Bunbury born Western Australian Explorer Sir John Forrest.
	geocaching.com.au /cache/gc87a8 (6550 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Discovery of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and its early settlement 1802 - 1835-
		Lieutenant Murray was pleased with the landscape scenery of the “noble harbour” that unfolded before his eyes, and compared it with that of Greenwich Park and Blackheath.
		John Batman meets aboriginals to conclude treaty with them for 600,000 acres of land at Port Phillip.
		John Pascoe Fawkner, Rival leader to John Batman in settling Melbourne.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheDiscoveryofPortPhillip.html (2486 words)

	Australian Explorers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		List of Australian land and sea explorers with links to their biographical details and their journals.
		Details of the work of both major and minor explorers are covered, with generous quotations from the works of the explorers themselves and reproduction of a number of relevant documents.
		Dictionary of Australian Biography Biographies of more than 1000 people prominent in the development of Australia--explorers, artists, politicians, scientists, etc. All died before the end of 1942.
	www.gutenberg.net.au.cob-web.org:8888 /explorers.html (2732 words)

	Early Australian History : Rare Books Exhibition
		This is part of a set of sixteen miniature volumes originally issued in a specially-made, tiny wooden bookcase.
		After the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813 by Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, the country inland began to be explored.
		Flora australiensis : a description of the plants of the Australian Territory / George Bentham ; assisted by Ferdinand Mueller.
	www.lib.monash.edu.au /exhibitions/history/xaust.html (1955 words)

	Bibliography
		Distribution of riverine sediment chemistry on the shelf, slope, and rise of the Gulf of Papua.
		The prehistory of the Australian New Guinea Highlands.
		Bulletin of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics 5:123-126.
	www.vims.edu /margins/biblio.htm (3732 words)

	Bibliography on the type-Cincinnatian
		Anthony, John Gould, 1847, On an impression of the soft parts of an Orthoceras [Cincinnati, Ohio]: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v.
		Ford, John P., 1972, Bedrock geology of the Addyston quadrangle and part of the Burlington quadrangle, Hamilton County, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 83, 1 sheet.
		Ford, John P., 1974, Bedrock geology of the Cincinnati West quadrangle and part of the Covington quadrangle, Hamilton County, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 93, 1 sheet.
	inside.msj.edu /academics/faculty/davisr/cintian/biblio.htm (14455 words)

	Neil Williams, Bookseller : Voyages and Exploration
		Remarkable story of John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty and the explorers whom he dispatched all over the globe.
		A direct transcription of the papers of the Hudson's Bay Company explorer which were turned over to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in 1926.
		Printed from the English Edition of 1568 with the addition, in square brackets, of the long passage omitted form all early editions and most manuscripts and first printed in 1785 from the Cotton Manuscript in the British Museum.
	www.islandnet.com /~neilw/hakluyt.htm (1922 words)

	Bibliography generated from paleopap.bib
		Harry Dowsett, Robert Thompson, John Barron, Thomas Cronin, Farley Fleming, Scott Ishman, Richard Poore, Debra Willard, and Jr.
		Johns, T. Lee, R. Beardsley, J. Candela, R. Limeburner, and B. Castro.
		Murray D. Levine, James D. Irish, Terry E. Ewart, and Stephen A. Reynolds.
	stommel.tamu.edu /~baum/bib2html/paleopap.html (7508 words)

	National Parks Journal, June 1999
		Here, at pages 12-13, is an explicit statement that "indigenous Australians are fundamentally opposed to the concept of wilderness." Such a sweeping statement might be appropriate as a personal submission in response to the report; it is totally inappropriate in a report by a public agency charged with the protection of wilderness.
		The Prime Minister and heads of government of all Australian states and territories committed to implement the strategy as a matter of urgency, subject to the budgetary priorities and constraints of their individual jurisdictions.
		John Corkill of the North East Forest Alliance succeeded in an action taken under Section 176A of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 to prevent the Forestry Commission from logging 450 hectares of Chaelundi State Forest, north of Dorrigo.
	dazed.org /npa/npj/199906 (13917 words)

	Goulburn Things to Do Tips by iandsmith - VirtualTourist.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Australians are generally much more aware of their heritage than they were, say, 50 years ago, but there's only so many buildings you can conserve.
		The Australian Joint Stock Bank Limited was slapped up in just seven months in 1866 by Adamson and Dow.
		In 1910 it became the premises of the Australian Bank of Commerce and then, in 1931, the Bank of New South Wales took over and they later merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia to become today's Westpac.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/3caf0/1c9f13/4/?o=2 (1709 words)

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		Of special note are the explorers, whom Kipling portrays as driven ever onwards by an inner urge.
		In "The Song of the Dead" (part of "A Song of the English") he writes: We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town; We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
		Mr Lewis knew of Hedin's high reputation as a Central Asian explorer (he was the author of several important books on that region, and was made a K.S.I.E. in 1909), but was previously unaware of his activities in the Great War.
	www.johnradcliffe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /textfiles/KJ278.txt (15049 words)

	October 10, 2004 - October 16, 2004 Archives \| Samizdata.net
		It has a lot of useful facilities that Internet Explorer lacks, like tabbed browsing, a way of having lots of web pages open without cluttering the screen.
		And the result is that Internet Explorer's market share is starting to decline.
		Microsoft could bring out an improved version of Internet Explorer before the next Windows upgrade (likely in 2006), but it says it will not.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/week_2004_10_10.html (10652 words)

	Personal Names Index to the Writings of Alfred Russel Wallace
		Harrison, John [inventor of the chronometer 1693-1776] ----445 --468
		Lubbock, Sir John [naturalist and financier 1834-1913] ----83 --150 --152 --165 --173 --181 --186 --205 --252 --257 --272 --304 --314 --362 --439 --491 --510 --712 --716 --719 --722 --724 --729 --732
		Mill, John Stuart [economist and philosopher 1806-1873] ----107 --108 --110 --136 --155 --186 --208a --253 --375 --387 --423 --454 --466 --491 --493 --495 --498 --507 --568 --576 --579 --585 --649 --684 --693 --707 --716 --722 --723 --726 --729 --734 --738 --741
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/names.htm (9301 words)

	Pioneer Books List 29
		Maps on endpapers (The Southern Highlands Area of NSW) The Murray Family Tree.
		Australian Manufactures, Products, Arts and Industries/March 21st to May 17th, 1947 (Specialty Printers) Pict.
		The Hero As Murderer: The Life of Edward John Eyre Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815-1901
	www.pioneerbooks.com.au /lists/0029.html (1301 words)

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