![]() ![]() ![]() Some parts thickly clothed in forest with rivers with fordable places as if ‘ they had been intended for such a purpose.’Įlizabeth Macarthur in 1795 wrote about the area near modern-day Parramatta, In every early convict painting, in every journal and in every letter back home, it’s there – the park like nature of Australia, the carpets of grass and lightly wooded areas. ![]() The extraordinary thing about Bill Gammage’s award winning book, The Biggest Estate on Earth, is how obvious what he is saying really is when you look at the records – the letters, the journals, the paintings and sketches of early colonial times in Australia. ![]()
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