State Library of NSW
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The Hobart Town Gazette of the 25th September 1830. announced the plan of operation for the ensuing Campaign. I insert the whole of the Government Order, although I am aware that most readers are careless of the accounts of military evolutions, but in this particular instance the plan formed was indeed a masterpiece. I have also on every occasion introduced as much as possible the names of the Districts, parishes, and of the country generally, names so familiar and endearing to Englishmen, who must feel elated that at a distance of many thousands of miles in the Southern Hemisphere the British language, and names of places, are perpetuated.
Whoever is in any shape acquainted with Van Dieman's Land must feel much pleased with the details of the plan of operation published in the Government Gazette. it displays a perfect knowledge of the
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