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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle, September 10-12, 1789:…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Botany Bay: the London Chronicle, September 10-12, 1789: includes a short piece about a curious item 'imported from Botany Bay..a leaf of very uncommon properties, the most extraordinary is, that when dried, even without being pulverised, it goes off on application of a match, with an explosion somewhat in the manner of gunpowder, the air is afterwards agreeably perfumed...
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