Excerpt from Address Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society: 22nd May, 1871 The legislative sanction of the South Australian Government to the telegraph scheme of Mr. Charles Todd was given in September, 1870, and the surveying parties immediately commenced their operations. The line passes in a northerly direction from Port Augusta, at the head of Spencer Gulf; then along the routes of Stuart, passing Mount Margaret, his final starting-point. At the end of February last, the line was completed and in ...
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Excerpt from Address Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society: 22nd May, 1871 The legislative sanction of the South Australian Government to the telegraph scheme of Mr. Charles Todd was given in September, 1870, and the surveying parties immediately commenced their operations. The line passes in a northerly direction from Port Augusta, at the head of Spencer Gulf; then along the routes of Stuart, passing Mount Margaret, his final starting-point. At the end of February last, the line was completed and in operation beyond this, and by this time has probably reached the tropic. At the northern end it proceeds to the south-east on leaving Port Darwin, threading a most fertile country, equal, for pasturage and settlement, to the best parts of South Australia, and striking Stuart's track in about lat. 13??? 14' s., within 50 or 60 miles of the north coast. Any doubts regarding the accuracy of Stuart's narrative have been entirely dispelled by the telegraphic parties, who found his camp-trees marked with his initials, and also the recent tracks of a horse, which must have strayed from him, as he relates, seven and a half years previously. Throughout the survey, both in the north and the south, our traveller's reports of the country are entirely confirmed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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