id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38649 Palmer, Edward Early Days in North Queensland .txt text/plain 71255 3625 74 Our Queensland land policy is a legacy of the old days of New South Gulf, where the finding of salt water in the rivers gave them great country, crossing many rivers and creeks, and enduring a thousand Alligator River over some extensive plain country in which large numbers River, where the country consisted of open plains, the party travelled Gregory to the Nicholson River is all good cattle country, but the grass opening up country and forming new stations. twenty-eight horses, to explore the north country for runs for stocking well-grassed cattle country, watered by the finest perennial river in The Bowen River country was soon occupied with runs and stock from the The main stock route northward followed the Bowen River settlements held country far away to the south on the Herbert River, called now the Palmer River through some of the roughest country in North Queensland. ./cache/38649.txt ./txt/38649.txt