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Lachlan Macquarie Inspects Cox's Road. (poetry).(Poem)
LACHLAN MACQUARIE INSPECTS COX'S ROAD they laid down the road before him like carpet (any road being carpet over those roughhouse mountains) he bumped over contour, can hardly be said to have travelled it while road was close-fitting as hose ...
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