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The Moreton Bay Courier
Tues 3 July 1860
Notes Made At Brisbane In Queensland
By An Invalid
(From the Melbourne Age, June 7)
Various circumstances, among which may be numbered a not over robust state of health, having rendered a residence in Queensland desirable, I very recently transferred myself and traps to Brisbane, the infant capital of that still long-coated colony. Being a stranger in the land, I have felt the time hang somewhat heavily on my hands, and, as a divertisement, I have written down a few notes on the place and its inhabitants which may supply some information to people at a distance; but whether they may be found to possess that merit or not – here at all events, they are:-
Various things soon make a visitor from Sydney to Brisbane aware that he has approached a few degrees nearer to the equator. He feels the atmosphere sensibily