. Una storia dell'impero; storie dell'India e delle maggiori colonie raccontate ai bambini . s op Canada. Sir R. Prescott . 1796 Carlo x. 1824 Louis Philippe 1830 Repubblica . 18481862 Sir James CraigSir George Prevost Sir J. Sherbrooke Duca di RichmondLord Dalhousie Sir James kempt Lord Aylmer . Lord Gosford . Sir John ColborneLord Durham .i on. C. Poulett . governatori generali del canada unito Lord Sydenham . . 1339 (on. C. Poullett)Sir Charles Bagot . . 1842Lord Metcalfe .... 1843Carretto di Earl . . ] 1845Conte di Elgin .... 1847 18071811 181618181820 182818301836 18381838183
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. An empire story; stories of India and the greater colonies told to children . s op Canada. Gen. Sir R. Prescott . 1796 Charles x. 1824 Louis Philippe 1830 Republic . .Napoleon iii.(Emperor) 18481862 Sir James CraigSir George Prevost Sir J. Sherbrooke .Duke of RichmondLord Dalhousie Sir James Kempt .Lord Aylmer . .Lord Gosford . Sir John ColborneLord Durham .I Hon. C. Poulett . governors-general of united canada Lord Sydenham . . 1339 (Hon. C. Poulett)Sir Charles Bagot . . 1842Lord Metcalfe .... 1843Earl Cathcart . . ] 1845Earl of Elgin .... 1847 18071811 181618181820 182818301836 183818381839 Republic 1870 I Edward vii. 1901George V. 1910 Sir Edmund Bond Head . 1854 Viscount Monck . . I86I GOVERNORS-GENERAL OP THEDOMINION. Sir John Young , , . I868(Lord Lisgar) I Earl of Dufferin . , . 1872 Marquis of Lome . . 1878 Marquis of Lansdowne . 1883 Earl of Derby .... 1888 Earl of Aberdeen . . 1893 Earl of Minto .... 1898 Earl Grey 1904 H.R.H. The Connaught Duke of 1911 AUSTRALIA Note.—The verses in this part of the book are byAustralian writers.. CHAPTER I * THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN Wise people tell us that the land of Australia is perhapsthe oldest in the world. At a time when the wide oceanswept over the continent of Europe, when our Httle islandstill lay far beneath the rippling waves, the land ofAustralia stood above the lone waters. Yet to us Australia is a new discovered country.Long ages ago indeed travellers and learned men toldtales of a Great South Land which lay somewhere in theSouthern Seas. But no eye had seen that fabled country, no ship had touched that unknown shore. It was acountry dim and mysterious as fairyland. On ancientmaps we find it marked with rough uncertain lines, TheSoutherne Unknowne Lande, but how it came to be somarked, how the stories about it first came to be told, and believed, we shall very likely never know. It is hard to tell too, who, among white men, first setfoot on this great island. If one of the brave sailors ofthose