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 atomic time scales consisted of quartz clocks with frequencies calibrated by a single atomic clock ; the atomic clocks were not operated continuously.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Early versions had problems and did not become stable for some time.

Early forms of industry developed at this time ; however, unlike in other cities, no guilds were formed in Aarau.

Early BOFH editions took place in a university, moving on to an office workplace over time ( an exact transition is not given ).

Early Carboniferous land plants, some of which were preserved in coal balls, were very similar to those of the preceding Late Devonian, but new groups also appeared at this time.

( During the Early Middle Ages, troops were only available after the crops had been planted and before harvesting time.

Early computer-music programs typically did not run in real time.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

The term dagger is coined in this time, as are the Early Modern German equivalents dolch ( tolch ) and degen ( tegen ).

Early warnings, made a few days ahead of potential events, are of significant benefit, giving additional time to allow contingency plans to be put into place.

Early in series 2 and 3, the executive producers of the time approach Marty and ask him to explain Emma.

The " Abecedarian Early Intervention Project ", an all-day program that provided various forms of environmental enrichment to children from infancy onward, showed IQ gains that did not diminish over time.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

Early in their careers they had all worked at the same time at the Palazzo Barberini, initially under Carlo Maderno and on his death, under Bernini.

Early plans saw it being launched by Space Shuttle Columbia on what was then codenamed STS-23 in January 1982, but delays in the development of the Space Shuttle allowed more time for development of the probe.

Early editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 ) and Lewis Theobald ( 1733 ), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available at the time, Q2 and F1.

Though the Early Church used the Old Testament according to the canon of the Septuagint ( LXX ), the apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures ; instead the New Testament developed over time.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Early in The Who's career, they sought to differentiate themselves apart from other bands of the time.

Early MUMPS memory partitions were limited to 2048 bytes so aggressive abbreviation greatly aided multi-programming on severely resource limited hardware, because more than one MUMPS job could fit into the very small memories extant in hardware at the time.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early analog synthesizers were usually monophonic ( capable of playing only one note at a time ), and controlled via a voltage produced by their keyboards.

Early Methodists were drawn from all levels of society, including the aristocracy, but the Methodist preachers took the message to labourers and criminals who tended to be left outside organized religion at that time.