Evans, "A Pastoral": `Apple-tree' -- an indigenous Australian tree,
so called from a supposed resemblance to the English apple-tree,
but bearing no edible fruit.
O'Hara, "Flinders": `Flinders' -- Matthew Flinders first came to Australia
with Bass and Hunter in 1795, and made several heroic voyages
around Australian coasts.
Jephcott, "A Ballad of the last King of Thule": `Mannan' -- the ancient
bardic name of the Isle of Man.
`Eire' -- the ancient name of Ireland.
`The Isle of Apple-trees' -- "Emhain Ablach", the Isle of Arran.
This was the land of faery to the Northern and Western Gaels.
Mackay, "The Burial of Sir John Mackenzie": `Sir John Mackenzie' --
Born 1838; for many years Minister for Lands in New Zealand. Died 1891.
Holy Hill -- Puketapu, a hill sacred to the Maoris on the Otago coast.
Lawson, "Andy's gone with Cattle": `Riders' -- timber used to hold down
the bark roofs of primitive bush houses.
Lawson, "Out Back": `Mulga' -- an aboriginal name given to various trees
of the acacia family (A.
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