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This is Wellington Harbour, then called Port Nicholson, as a glance at any modern map will prove. It is from an imaginary viewpoint high over Cook Strait, looking north. There are ships in the harbour but no signs of settlement. The first British settlers arrived in 1840. There were only Maori settlements near the mouth of the river at the far side of the bay and on the left side of the bay when they arrived. As there is a broad strip of land between the mainland, left, and the former island of Miramar lower centre-left this looks to have been made after the 1855 8.2 Wairarapa earthquake. That raised much of the region, in Wellington by only 1-2 metres, but in the region beyond the mountains top-right by up to 8 metres. That connecting strip of land is now mostly Wellington Airport. The modern city of Wellington occupies the lower slopes of the left side of the picture and includes the suburbs of Miramar, where Sir Peter Jackson has his film studio. In the distance the Hutt River runs along the centre of the valley with two streams off to left and right. Today the river flows all down the left side of the valley and reaches the sea via the left hand stream. The Hutt Valley changed from swamp to arable land due to being raised by 2 metres in the quake. This appears to indicate that the valley tilted to the left side, where the faultline is, and the river changed course. The right hand stream remains unchanged. The Hutt Valley is now full of housing, the oldest settlements being near the broad shoreline that can be seen.

Extract from a book review of 'Ragusa, gedr. b. Martechini: Notizie iflorico-critische fulle Antichita, Storia e Letteratura de Ragusei.' published in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. 29. May 1804: "S. 24 leitet er das Wort Illyrier, oder, wie er's ausgesprochen haben will, Hillyrier, vom Slavichen hirli, herli, oder hrli (behend, geschickt zu schnellen Unernehmungen), ab, weil Livius sage lib. 31: 'Illyriorum velocitas ad excursiones et impetus subitos usui est.' Vom nämlichen Wort hrli stamme das griechische und lateinische ??, das deutsche Herr, das nordische Earl, sogar der Name Karl her. S. 34 will der Vf. die Höhle der Aesculapischen Schlange gewiss wieder gefunden haben, am Berge Suiesnitza. Zu der ersten Abtheilung gehören auch die fechs Kupfer, wovon das erste den Bembel oder den illyrischen Silen, das zweyte einen ragusanischen Soldaten, das dritte die Tracht der Weiber am Kanal bey Ragusa, das vierte den Turizza oder den illyrischen Mars, das fünfte den Cioroje oder illyrischen Bacchus, das sechste die Vila oder illyrischen Diana vorstellt." About the author: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Appendini Cf. also the Kukeri dancers of Bulgaria: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukeri

The battle was the first in which African-American soldiers (1st Kansas Colored Infantry) fought alongside white troops.