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单词 the limits of location
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the limits (also boundaries, bounds) of location
P1. Australian. the limits (also boundaries, bounds) of location: the frontier of settlement; spec. the boundaries delimiting those parts of an Australian Colony within which land was available for ownership and settlement. Now historical.
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1837 Minutes of Evid. Rep. Select Comm. Transportation 190 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 518) XIX. 1 They take their sheep establishments not beyond the limits of the colony, but beyond the limits of location.
1839 in Kerr's Melbourne Almanac (1841) 24 Such land, whenever it may be deemed expedient to extend the boundaries of location, will be liable to be put up to competition at public auction.
1862 E. Strickland Austral. Pastor 65 Albury is situated far beyond what are called ‘the bounds of location’ in the squatting district of the Murrumbidgee.
1980 P. Freeman Woolshed 48 The ‘Limits of Location’, that had contained the young colony of New South Wales until the 1830s were finally breached by the early explorers.
2010 T. Keneally Great Shame i. iii. 44 He had begun putting livestock and convict labourers on land well to the south of Goulburn, beyond the Limits of Location.
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