Playford's Progeny

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Scottish Country Dance

(COUPLES FACING COUPLES AROUND THE ROOM)
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   LEFT HAND STAR AND RIGHT HAND STAR BACK
   LADIES CHAIN AND BACK
   DOSEY DOS OPPOSITE,DOSEY DOS PARTNER
   BALANCE, POLKA ONTO NEXT NEW COUPLE</code> music -

Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay. Two runways of Sydney Airport extend into the bay.
On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia, after his extensive navigation of New Zealand. Later the British planned Botany Bay as the site for a penal colony.

Out of these plans came the first European habitation of Australia at Sydney Cove.