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A sketch of the Bathurst Plains from about 1820

The creation of the inland town of Bathurst marked the beginning of the spread of European settlement west of the Blue Mountains. But it came at a huge cost to the local Aboriginal population.

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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales SV/56

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