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    Robert Brough Smyth (1830 – 8 October 1889) was an Australian geologist, author and social commentator. Smyth was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, England...
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  • Robert Smyth (or Smythe) may refer to: Robert Brough Smyth (1830–1899), Australian geologist, author and social commentator Sir Robert Smyth, 3rd Baronet...
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    title John Smyth (disambiguation) Joseph Smyth (disambiguation) Peter Smyth (disambiguation) Richard Smyth (disambiguation) William Smyth (disambiguation)...
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    account is from about 1841, a decade prior to the Victorian gold rush. Robert Brough Smyth in his 1878 book, The Aborigines of Victoria, quoted William Thomas...
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    earliest historical account is an anecdote from the 1878 book by Robert Brough-Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, in which a man called Richard Thomas...
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  • Australia. Robert Barnabas Brough was also related to Robert Brough Smyth. On 26 June 1860, Robert Brough died at 8 Boundary Street, Hulme, near Manchester...
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    Woiwurrung people playing the game of Marn grook in 1841, according to Robert Brough-Smyth, in The Aborigines of Victoria (1878): The men and boys joyfully...
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    contribution as a member was to argue, along with Secretary for Mines, Robert Brough Smyth, the need to use Australian rather than European calculations of...
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    paces in extreme breadth". The outline image no longer exists. Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria (1878) devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but...
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    pastimes appears in the 1878 book, The Aborigines of Victoria, in which Robert Brough Smyth relates that William Thomas, a Protector of Aborigines in Victoria...
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