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Article : 917 wordsAccording to promise I took a run up here, which is about fifty miles from Nowra, on the Shoalhaven River. Some of our old bushmen cull this part "Togro." It has hitherto been used as an outside run by the Nerrega residents; there ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 17 Aug 1872, Page 7
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