PLOT c/3FYY-SX · version 1 of 1

The writer reports landing about 2,000 sheep, and some fifteen horses, at Williamstown in 1839.

In Van Diemen's Land we bought about 2,000 sheep, which, after great trouble and delay, we landed at Williamstown without much loss. Many others were not so fortunate, losing half their cargo from stress of weather and close confinement. We also imported from Van Diemen's Land some fifteen horses.Historical passage

About Williamstown

Kind

Reported by source

Who said it

Other

Period

1853

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Open questions

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Where it says so

Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (on archive.org) · View in PLOT — p. 222, lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 248, printed page 222

How they know

accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 248, printed page 222

Limitations

A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.

Framework targets

none linked

Editions

october-26th-release

Cite as: PLOT record c/3FYY-SX v1, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (1853), reported by source

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