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[New South Wales] N.lle Holland; Port Jackson: Passage de Cox, dans les Montagnes-Bleues.
[New South Wales] N.lle Holland; Port Jackson: Passage de Cox, dans les Montagnes-Bleues.
Dessiné par Marchais d'après A. Pellion. Gravé par Schroeder.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"), with large margins. Crease in margin.
Europeans riding up a steep inline marked with a fence. Cox's Pass was the first route across the Blue Mountains known to the settlers. After a former convict living with the Aboriginies passed the details of the route to the Europeans, William Cox (1764-1837) built a 101-mile dirt track in six months, linking Sydney and Bathurst. A plate from the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
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