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 road construction was both hindered and helped by rail transport during the first half century of European settlement.

Early road trains consisted of traction engines pulling multiple wagons.

The traces of buildings, walls and a road from this time period prove that life existed and continued to do so during the Early Hellenic era ( 3000 – 2000 BC ).

Early Mustangs also proved successful in road racing.

Early settlers moved to what would become Cyr Plantation in the mid-1800s, then known as Township Letter L. Around that time, a road was built between the Aroostook River and Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada ( which today stretches between Caribou, Maine and Hamlin, Maine ).

Early pioneers trekked up the road as they continued to move ever westward.

Early records indicate that one person was elected as " road supervisor " and tax collector.

Early Duchesne Settlement Monument: 130 West Main on north side of the road

Early Leyland bus on the road at Amberley

Early in the play, Oedipus encountered Laius on the road to Thebes.

Early Formula One racing cars used steering wheels taken directly from road cars.

Early Formula One racing drivers used steering wheels taken directly from road cars.

Early in 2003, after much campaigning, residents finally won their settlement two new road signs, and widespread recognition, as their story made the national news.

Early railways ( c. 1840s ) experimented with continuous bearing railtrack, in which the rail was supported along its length, with examples including Brunel's Baulk road on the Great Western Railway, as well as use on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to a design by John Hawkshaw, and elsewhere.

Early colonists from the banks of the Saint Lawrence River arrived slowly, blazing trails as they went ; the first provincial road would be built in 1844.

Early indications are that the new road has been successful in reducing traffic levels on the urban section of the M8.

Early medieval law-tracts set out five types of road including the highway ( slighe ), the ' main road ' ( ród or rout ), the ' connecting road ' ( lámraite ), the ' side road ' ( tógraite ) which could be tolled, and the ' cow road ' ( bóthar ).

Early cars used AC's elderly two-litre overhead cam straight-six engine ( first seen soon after the end of the First World War ), which, according to a 1954 road test by Motor magazine, gave a top speed of and in 11. 4 seconds and a fuel consumption of.

As the Indians battled for the 1952 American League pennant heading into September, Garcia recorded three consecutive shutouts to begin the month, part of an eight-game win streak which included two shutouts by fellow pitching mate Early Wynn ( who later was Garcia's roommate on road trips ).

On the road, unbeknownst to his companions, Early murders a man in a gas station bathroom and steals his money.