ALBURY
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 517
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ALBURY
, a See also:town in See also:Goulburn See also:county, New See also:South See also:Wales, See also:Australia, 386 m. by See also:rail W.S.W. of See also:Sydney
.
Pop
.
(1901) 5§2I
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It stands near the border of See also:Victoria, on the right See also:bank of the See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray See also:river, here crossed by two See also:bridges, one built of See also:wood carrying a road, the other of See also:iron bearing the railway
.
The Murray is navigable for small steamers from this town to its mouth, a distance of 1800 See also:miles
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Albury is the centre of a See also:sheep-rearing and agricultural See also:district; grapes, cereals and See also:tobacco are largely grown, and the See also:wine produced here is held in high repute throughout Australia
.
The See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree under which the first explorers encamped here in See also:November 1824 is still See also:standing in an enclosed space
.
Albury became a See also:municipality in 1859
.
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