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A Fragment, Written by the Author of "Wanderings in Van Diemen's Land," during One of His Pedestrianisms through a Forest of Tasmania, 1836
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"'Tis true I am not, prince-like, clad"
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1864
A Fragment, Written by the Author of "Wanderings in Van Diemen's Land," during One of His Pedestrianisms through a Forest of Tasmania, 1836
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Epigraph: "----carmina non prins / Audita, Musarum sacerdos / ---------canto." Horace. Translated by the author in a Note on page 114 as: 'Verses not before attempted, I, the priest of the Muses, now chaunt'.
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Epigraph: "And pleased I am no beaten road to take, / But first the way to new discoveries make." Dryden
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The poem is in four cantos.
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Subjects:
- Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
- Tasmania,
- Great Lake, Central Highlands, Tasmania,
- Lake St Clair, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Northwest Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Derwent River, Derwent Valley, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Mount Wellington, Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Huon River, Huon Valley, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Gordon River, Southwest Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,
- Tamar River, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- South Esk River, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Ben Lomond, Northern Midlands, Midlands, Tasmania,
- Tasman Peninsula, Forestier Peninsula - Tasman Peninsula area, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
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