Sleep Story 241 – South Australia and Western Australia
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Sturt's Journey to Adelaide
Sturt went on southwards till he entered a big lake, now called Lake Alexandrina. He could see to the westward ranges of hills, which he rightly conceived to be those that Captain Flinders had described after surveying the coasts of Golfes and Vincent. But he had not the means nor had his men the strength to go across the country. So he returned by the Murray and the Morambeji, and made his way to Sydney. Though Sturt did not discover the land in which the colony of South Australia was first founded, and on which the city of Adelaide now stands. The history of his journey and the account which had previously been given by Captain Flinders led
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