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STUART, JOHN

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1048 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOHN M`DOUALL (1818-1866), See also:

South Australian explorer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

DYSART

Dysart in Fifeshire, See also:

Scotland, in 1818, and arrived in the See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony about 1839. He accompanied See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

STURT, CHARLES (d. 186g)

Sturt's 1844-1845 expedition as draughtsman, and between 1858 and 1862 he made six expeditions into the interior, the last of which brought him on the 25th of See also:

JULY

July to the shores of the See also:

INDIAN

Indian Ocean at See also:

Van See also:

DIEMEN, ANTHONY VAN (1593–1645)

Diemen's Gulf, at the mouth of the See also:

Adelaide See also:

RIVER

River. Stuart was not the first to See also:

CROSS

cross the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent from south to See also:

north; that See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour belongs to the See also:

Burke and See also:

WILLS, WILLIAM GORMAN (1828-1891)

Wills expedition, which reached the Gulf of See also:

CARPENTARIA, GULF OF

Carpentaria on the 6th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1861. Stuart returned to Adelaide exhausted and broken, and never recovered from the effects of the See also:

GREAT

great privations which he suffered. He returned to See also:

England, where he died on the 5th of See also:

JUNE

June 1866. Stuart was rewarded with £3000 and a See also:

grant of See also:

I000

i000 sq. m. of grazing See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the interior See also:

RENT

rent See also:

FREE

free for seven years. His name is perpetuated by Central See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Stuart.

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