" Some of the names of localities m Victoria and New South Wales," writes the " Murray and Hume Times," " smack slightly oflrrevereoice, arid have ah odd effect wh&i mentioned in public. At the Albury Court?' of Quarter Sessions a witness, on being questioned as to his occupation, said hif-was a contractor, and lived in Abraham's Bosom. The judge opened his eyes somewhat wide at the answer, but it was explained that Abraham's Bosom was the name of a ! place o_ the road from Albury to Ournie, so termed, it is to be presumed, from its extreme.; difficulty of accesoi"
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Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2704, 8 April 1874, Page 3
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