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It was built by free labour, but many convicts were employed, as at the "Horsburgh," as stone cutters, blasters, and as labourers, under the charge of an officer of the
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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"Horsburgh," after the celebrated hydrographer of that name.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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Horsburgh gives it 113° 28 ', which, considering that both observations were made afloat, is a near enough approximation.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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The rocks reported to exist by Horsburgh, and put down on Norie's chart, have no existence.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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We passed many castles and towers and other ancient fortifications along its banks, the first being at Horsburgh, where the castle looked down upon a grass field called the Chapelyards, on which formerly stood the chapel and hospice of the two saints, Leonard and Lawrence.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Horsburgh (ch. v.) shows that Wellington believed his forces to be more to the front than they were: he traces the error to De Lancey, chief of the staff.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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Horsburgh leaned towards religious and prohibition titles, but also issued Professor Black's Chemistry for the Goldfields (1885); Braithwaite favoured the Freethinkers.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Salmond's The Reign of Grace (Horsburgh, 1888) went through five editions, each of 1,000, in a year; Marshall's Homeopathic Guide, issued by a local pharmacist in 1884, had a print run of 5,000; and J.F. Neil's New Zealand Family Herb Doctor (1889) reached three editions and 5,000 copies by 1891.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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He was succeeded by Horsburgh, whose name is justly dear to navigators.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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Touron Bay has been described by various authors, notably by Horsburgh, as one of the most beautiful and vast in the universe; but such is not the opinion of
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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