George Rusden's three volume History of Australia is published

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George Rusden was born in Surrey, but in 1835, when he was sixteeen, his father was appointed a chaplain at Maitland, in New South Wales, and the family emigrated to Australia. As well as visiting and working for a time in China, Rusden worked for the civil service in Melbourne. His 1883

History of Australia

and its companion text,

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