Early European settlers, unfamiliar with the sights and sounds of the island continent's peculiar fauna, regarded the bunyip as one more strange Australian animal and sometimes attributed unfamiliar animal calls or cries to it.

Early settlers bristled at the control exterted by Mormon-influenced officials and desired the creation of the Nevada territory.

Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

Early European settlers to the United States brought from Europe the concept of the commons.

Early settlers of fertile land in Mesopotamia used wooden plows to soften the soil before planting crops such as barley, onions, grapes, turnips, and apples.

Early British settlers called it by many names, such as watermole, duckbill, and duckmole.

Early American settlers in south Texas began to use the modern ' English ' name Rio Grande.

Early settlers in the area had cut down the native forests to fuel blast furnaces that processed the iron ore found there, leaving only a secondary growth of dense shrubs.

Early settlers constructed drainage canals to make the land usable for agriculture, which remained the dominant use of land until the 1960s, when construction of large housing tracts accelerated.

Early settlers traveled between the islands by canoe using traditional stick charts.

Early in 1869, however, settlers began to cross the Verdigris River, " at first under protest of the Indians, but the immense throng of settlers soon made all protests futile.

Early British settlers introduced Western culture | Western stock and crops and Australian agriculture now produces an abundance of fresh produce.

Early settlers to Nebraska built houses with thick walls made of dirt and sod because wood, stone, and other building materials were scarce.

Early French settlers, immigrating mostly from the Normandy and Poitou regions in France, were attracted to the island because of its fertile soil.

Early European settlers in the region, however, did not record much about the culture of the natives.

Early settlers named the first county seat of Hardin after him.

Early human settlers in New Zealand ( the Māori arrived around the year 1280 ) preyed heavily on large flightless birds, including all moa species, eventually hunting them to extinction.

Early settlers found Dimmit County to be an abundant grassland with mesquite, oak, and ash trees and wildlife that included buffalo, deer, turkeys, wild horses, panthers, and javelinas.

Early settlers were S. M.

Early white settlers were in the county in 1836 and were probably hunters.

Early white settlers during that time were primarily serving as missionaries to the tribes.

Early settlers called it the Devil's Lake and there were many reported sightings of a monster.

Early settlers were attracted to Lick Creek, and then the Salamonie River, because the nearby land had suitable drainage for farming.

Early settlers include John M. Smith, Millege McCall, John William Sweeney, George W. Wakefield, William Doxey, James Hale, James Root, and John M. Miller.

Early dirigible developments included machine-powered propulsion ( Henri Giffard, 1852 ), rigid frames ( David Schwarz, 1896 ), and improved speed and maneuverability ( Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1901 )

Early video chipsets featuring AGP support included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX / 2.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

Early street railways on Broadway included the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad's Broadway and University Place Line ( 1864?

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

Early copies included a bonus CD of live material.

Early forms of cartography of India included the locations of the Pole star and other constellations of use.

Early labels, most now-defunct, included Blonde Vinyl, Frontline, Exit, and Refuge.

Early researchers of clairvoyance included William Gregory ( chemist ), Gustav Pagenstecher, and Rudolf Tischner.

Early bassists for the group included Ron Crotty, Bob Bates, and Bob's brother Norman Bates ; Lloyd Davis and Joe Dodge held the drum chair.

Early projects in this vein included Everything2 and Open Site.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Early efforts included simple carbon copies but that proved insufficient.

Early American grind practitioners included Terrorizer and Assück.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

Early uses for sulphuric acid included pickling ( removing rust ) iron and steel, and for bleaching cloth.

Early pesticide development included Gramoxone ( 1962, a herbicide ), the insecticides pirimiphos-methyl in 1967 and pirimicarb in 1970, brodifacoum ( a rodenticide ) was developed in 1974 ; in the late 1970s, ICI was involved in the early development of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides such as lambda-cyhalothrin.

Early makers of jazz guitars included Gibson, Epiphone, D ' Angelico and Stromberg.

Early personal computers such as the Apple II or IBM PC included only this minimal peripheral support on the motherboard.

Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

Early commercial products included Gemstone ( Servio Logic, name changed to GemStone Systems ), Gbase ( Graphael ), and Vbase ( Ontologic ).

Early Ontario punk bands included The Diodes, The Viletones, The Battered Wives, The Demics, Forgotten Rebels, Teenage Head, The Poles, and The Ugly.