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Desolate Queensland Promise Meets Bleak Eyre Sand Patch Tale
A Queensland emigration agent recalls English fears of heat and scant water as Scottish crofters doubt the land's climate. A reader from Sheol letterdescribes Eyre's Sand Patch on the south east coast of Centralia as a lifeless, wind swept barren region with a lone graham living there for 24 years amid shifting dunes and roaring sea.
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Sir Horace Tover
Australia
Queensland
Vigilane
Sheol
Wentralia
Eyre
Sand Patch
Israelite Bay
Graham