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Monday, July 2, 2012

Australian Gazetteer from 1848

This free downloadable eBook is useful for identifying historical Australian place names:

Author: William Henry Wells
Title: A geographical dictionary or gazetteer of the Australian colonies : their physical and political geography : together with a brief notice of all the capitals, principal towns, and villages ...
Publisher: Sydney : W. & F. Ford
Subject (keywords, tags): Australia -- Gazetteers
Contributor: University of California Libraries
Format: txt
Size: 394 kb

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-henry-wells/a-geographical-dictionary-or-gazetteer-of-the-australian-colonies--their-physic-hci.shtml

As well as towns and villages it lists some rural properties and their owners.

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