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Odd facts span Tasmanian high tableland to Venice history
The excerpt notes a bleak Tasmanian tableland 2000 to 3000 feet high with coacting mountains and streams on the west coast, Palmi on Mount Elia with vineyards, the harbor town of Baltimore’s 1766 land value and Fort Henry site, Venice’s 200,000 population supporting vast seafaring trades, plus a South American frog with large tadpoles and insect biodiversity estimates in Riley’s work, and Moscow era javelins and Philadelphia’s first paid fire department in 1871.
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Tasmania
Baltimore
Whetstone Point
Fort Henry