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Notes
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Dedication: To my great-granddaughter, Jennifer Sally Adams.
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Author's note: Although the characters in this book are not entirely fictitious and the incidents are true according to stories handed down, readers are also assured that no particular family has been portrayed.
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Title page verso: Adapted from Behold, New Holland! (1940) and New Holland Heritage (1941).
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Single novel of three parts: 'A Colony Is Born', 'The Gates are Opened', and 'A New Order'.
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Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia)
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New Holland Heritage : (An Early West Australian Romance)
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'In Behold New Holland Mrs Weaver followed the fortunes of the Mabie family who came to Western Australia as pioneers of the new settlement at Swan River. In New Holland Heritage she continues the study of the family through the Australind period and into the years when Western Australia became a convict settlement.' (Source: J. S. Battye, Foreword)
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