Dear Kevin, in regards to this message to me,.

 >  As Howie Coombe wrote to Kevin Jcjd Symons Re: AUSTRALIAN NATIVE
HERBS 1    > Kevin sat UTGT {at} 1050ore on a sunny 27th of February, 2003
Cooee Howie!!!


G'day Kevin, Welcome to autumn, and hello to anyone else who happens across
this message,.

 > HC> G'day Kevin, liking this rain?

 >  It was lovely, but now I must cut the front grass patch.


Oh well, you probably need the exercise,.

 >>> The Tasmannia species belongs to the WINTERACEAE family,
which has been   
 >>> used by Europeans from at least 1597 when the bark of the
DRIMYS WINTERI

 >> HC> Aha, although im sure it was not refered to as tasmania anything,.

 >>  Pepperberries are exclusively from Tasmania, I believe.

 > HC> Aha, But in the 1500's Tasmania was not called Tasmania, it was called

 >  In the 1500's Tasmania was not known as anything except to the local
       > Aboriginals, I dare say.


You are right, it was not even dicovered untill the mid 1600's,.

 > IIRC, Abel Tasman did not see the island until 1652, and called it
Van       > Dieman's land.


Aha, who was Van Dieman anyway,?.

 > It was later re-named Tasmania in 1856, in his honour.


204 Years? What took them so long? why did they change it then?

 >> The above was a tidbit of info regarding the long-known knowledge about
                               
 > HC> Aha, how long-known?,.

 > Possibly millenea in Europe.


Aha,.

 >> " The end of the world has been postponed for 27 days owing
to the lack 

 >  And counting!


Aha,.

 > Cooee and Love, Kevin... XXXXXXXXXXX


Same to you, oh and if Dave Drum is reading this i would like to take this
opertunity to thank him for that afaghan recipie he sent me and request
more please .

 > " The end of the world has been postponed for 22 days owing to
the lack of   > UN trumpet players "


Why do you think it will take George, the bloke who could well bring it
about, 22 day's to get the troops ready?,.

 > ... Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.


Quite right,.

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