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From: Monissa Whiteley <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] MAPS OF TASMANIA
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:31:03 +1000
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At 08:23 6/09/01 +1000, Douglas Burbury wrote:

>The area that I *know* to be Eastern Marshes is the area where properties
>such as "Inglewood", "Fonthill" and "Spring Cottage" -- and possibly
>"Ashgrove" -- are located. However, my ggg-grandfather had a lease on
>12,000 acres of Crown Land at "Eastern Marshes" according to his will, and
>although I don't know where this land was, I assume that it was further out
>east, closer to and to the south/south-west of Tooms Lake. So the area
>known as Eastern Marshes was no doubt fairly big in total.

The map I have is s'posed to give an indication of who was where in the
1820s which I thought was rather useful so I photocopied it. From looking
at that, I suspect 'Eastern Marshes' was the name for all the land out
there to the east of the Port Dalrymple Road or whatever it was called then.

>Leone, do you know who your convict research interest was assigned to, or
>what the property name was?

If she doesn't mind me saying, and assuming I read my handwriting right,
the property owner in question is R.W. Loane.

>What you have to do is fold the map a la Stephen King style. This has the
>added advantage of making you younger each time you travel the route. <grin>
>
>But yes, it's certainly more than 50 kms. Probably more like 80 kms. I
>once worked out that the mid-point between Launceston and Hobart was at
>Antill Ponds (assuming a distance of 200 km between Launceston and Hobart).

Nice to know I'm not the only one that sat down one day and did that. Just
for completeness I checked the road atlas and according to that it's 84 km
from Bridgewater (on the northern extremity of Hobart for interstate
readers) and 121 km from the centre of the city. And 115 km from
Launceston. So if those figures are right (and I don't guarantee they are),
it's actually considerably more than 200 km between the two city centres. I
thought it was fairly close to 200 something like 199. No wonder the bus
trip seems so long and dull. I might try folding the map next time <g>



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