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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle September 10-12, 1789,…
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Melbourne
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2-Dec-2018
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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle September 10-12, 1789, Includes a short piece about a curious item 'imported from Botany Bay...a leaf of very uncommon properties, the most extraordinary is, that when dried, even without being pulverised, it goes off on application of a match, with an explosion somewhat in the manner of gunpowder, the air is afterwards agreeably perfumed......
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