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as I was inform’d no particular person was apointed to remove - which account I am inclind to beleive, as I remember a Dead Buffaloe laying in one of the principal streets of thoroughfare for more than a week, which was at last carried away by a flood.
The houses are in general large, well built, and conveniently enough contrivd for the climate. The greatest part of the ground floor is always laid out into one large room, with a door to the street and another to the yard, both which generaly stand open; below is the ground plot of one
below stairs where a is the street door, b the back door, c a room where the master of the house does his business, d a court to give light to the room as well as increase
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© Derived from State Library of NSW Transcription of Banks's Journal page (vol. 2) 431, February 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
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