The Brisbane river, falling into Moreton Bay, is important chiefly from the fact that the city of Brisbane is situated on its banks.
At Brisbane the rainfall is about 50 in., taking an average of forty years.
From a shipwrecked English sailor he met with, who had lived with the savages, he heard of the river Brisbane.
In 1821 he went to New South Wales as astronomer at the observatory built at Parramatta by Sir Thomas Brisbane.
In March 1842 The Tribune began to give one column daily to a discussion of the doctrines of Charles Fourier, contributed by Albert Brisbane.
