The first notice on recordrespecting the existence of the Black Swan occurs in a letterwritten by Mr. 271: Very many of their servants, being old hands or expireeconvicts from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, arethoroughly unprincipled men. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' c. 83 The army of sheep--about thirty thousand in fifteen flocks--at length reached the valley before dark, and the overseer,pointing to a flock of two thousand, more or less, said,`There's your mob.
resembling strongly the black-butted gum. uropygialis, Gould. alpinus, Hook. The resin or gum which they [the Kauri-trees]contained fell into the ground as the trees died, and (notbeing soluble in water) has remained there ever since.
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