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A Trumpeter A Trumpeter i(A119289 works by) (a.k.a. John H. Manly)
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1 y separately published work icon Salmoniana : Done in Verse i "'Mid pleasures and palaces tho' we may roam,", Barri Couta , A Trumpeter (illustrator), Hobart : J. Walch , 1866 Z816073 1866 single work poetry An entertaining account of the establishment of a salmon farm near New Norfolk. In forty-two stanzas, the writer describes events relating to the importation of salmon ova from the United Kingdom, the local citizens involved in the project and difficulties when the first hatch of young salmon take 'French leave' and swim away 'to the ocean green'.
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