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Australia had long been a dumping-ground for the British criminal classes and Australian objections were frequent

Hercules attempts to clean the Augean Stables

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and the duke has a bottle in his pocket

English garden scene Finish:Stretched Australia had long been aGarden landscape, by Henry Fletcher (fl. 1710 1750), featuring a fashionable 18th century couple being escorted around a walled [or topiary] garden by a horticulturalist who has doffed his hat and points towards the left of the image as viewed. Inscribed below 'Exiguus spatio, variis sed fertilis herbis. [A small space but rich in various herbs]. Engrav'd by Henry Fletcher London 1729.' Frontispiece of Catalogus plantarum a catalogue of trees, shrubs,