[COMPLETE][Exploration]The Australian Explorers, by George Grimm - kit

eggs4ears · Post by **eggs4ears** » July 27th, 2015, 3:45 pm

Yes, I agree. I was also thinking about how difficult it can be to get the sound to match if a correction needs rerecording. So I am happy to say this is PL OK!

Carolin wrote:my opinion is that anything that doesnt change the text and is a sufficiently small error needs not be changed (id put those three in that category).

i find that an edit can sound worse than an error - at least i personally cant ever get changes to sound right

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » July 31st, 2015, 9:51 pm

Chapter 1 – The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains
Duration: 14:46
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/australianexplorerstheirlaboursperilsandachievements_02_grimm.mp3

There’s a typo in the text in this chapter. It’s Captain Watkin Tench, not Trench. I've read it so as to give the correct surname.

Students of American history might be more familiar with Tench’s first cousin, Banastre Tarleton.

eggs4ears · Post by **eggs4ears** » August 3rd, 2015, 5:17 am

Chapter 1 PL OK!

I was pleased to hear John Wilson get an honorable mention. Around a year ago, I read these accounts which suggest he really was the first to cross the mountains - though perhaps you could say he walked around them!

https://librivox.org/early-explorations-in-new-south-wales-by-various/

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » August 3rd, 2015, 9:48 am

The Cox's River route was the one the cattle duffers used to use. Old bushwalkers tell of a huge bronze cauldron that used to be seen half-hidden on its bank that said duffers used to render the stolen cattle down into tallow, thereby giving them something to sell without those "pesky" brand marks.

I'm given to understand that some early explorer tried the Cox's River, but didn't make the big swing to the right where it turns north, instead continuing on to wind up in the Tartarus Deep, which is a heckuva rough spot to be blundering around in.
http://www.david-noble.net/blog/?p=2433

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » August 21st, 2015, 10:00 pm

Chapter 2 – Surveyor Evans's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers and the Bathurst Plains
Duration: 4:04
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/australianexplorerstheirlaboursperilsandachievements_03_grimm.mp3

eggs4ears · Post by **eggs4ears** » August 26th, 2015, 4:41 am

Chapter 2 PL OK. That was a short one!

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » August 27th, 2015, 2:02 am

Yes, not a lot survives of some of those early colonial government records. A lot of them were unfortunately moved into storage in Sydney's Garden Palace, which almost immediately went up in flames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Palace

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » December 25th, 2015, 5:54 pm

Oxley's Expeditions to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers
Duration: 13:05
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/australianexplorerstheirlaboursperilsandachievements_04_grimm.mp3

Here is the map Oxley produced: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Interior_of_NSW_1822_Oxley.jpg

Cheers,
Son of the Exiles

eggs4ears · Post by **eggs4ears** » January 1st, 2016, 2:45 am

Part 4 PL OK! Happy New Year! Good to see you back!

SonOfTheExiles wrote:Oxley's Expeditions to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers
Duration: 13:05
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/australianexplorerstheirlaboursperilsandachievements_04_grimm.mp3

WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » May 16th, 2016, 7:37 am

Sounds like a great 'listen'!

~Susan

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » July 5th, 2016, 1:37 am

hiya, hows it going with this project?

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » August 15th, 2016, 5:57 pm

Have just recorded the next chapter, will edit and post very soon. (By the way, do you think Audacity Noise Removal will remove the noise of a gently snoring cat?

)

SOTE

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » August 15th, 2016, 11:17 pm

If the cat snores gently you can leave it in id say

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » October 17th, 2016, 7:09 am

hi sote,

you had continued with this project during the last month, do i remember that correctly?

if so, please reupload any missing sections, as we lost them.

please also cruise by all group projects you have been involved in within the last month to make sure everything is in order over there

thank you!

eggs4ears · Post by **eggs4ears** » October 17th, 2016, 3:03 pm

Whoops! It looks like Hulme and Hovel disappeared in the Great Power Outage!

They were PL OK at the time of their disappearance, so the file just needs to be uploaded again.

Carolin wrote:hi sote,

you had continued with this project during the last month, do i remember that correctly?

if so, please reupload any missing sections, as we lost them.

please also cruise by all group projects you have been involved in within the last month to make sure everything is in order over there

thank you!