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Excerpt from The Exploration of Australia
- through his associations - an Englishman by adoption. He was a distinguished botanist, geologist, and astronomer, and had already shown his capabilities as an explorer, by making a journey overland to Moreton Bay, besides many excursions throughout the districts lying beyond the Darling. He was born in Baskow, near Berlin, and, having made his escape from the three years' compulsory military service, he was con demned as a deserter in contumaciam. His services to science, however, having been represented to the King Of Prussia by Von Humboldt, he was pardoned for the Offence; but his untimely death prevented his availing himself Of his Sovereign's clemency. The command Of the expedition now to be described naturally devolved upon him as being the best man available. The project was formed owing to the following circumstances - Australia's northern coast had been pronounced un inhabitable, settlements on Melville Island and Raifies Bay having. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
