The Present Picture of New South Wales: Illustrated with Four Large Coloured Views, from Drawings Taken on the Spot, of Sydney, the Seat of Government. With a Plan of the Colony Taken from Actual Survey by Public Authority ... with Hints for the Further Improvement of the Settlement |
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Page 48 - Wales, p. 417. branches of the trees display a brilliant assemblage of the feathered race, whose plumage, 'glittering in the sun', dazzles the eye of the beholder with its unmatched loveliness and lustre, and presenting, on the whole, a scene too rich for the pencil to...
Page 69 - The inferior officers of the settlement, and the non-commissioned officers and privates of the regiment, have been infected with the itch for dealing ; and many of the settlers themselves have either disposed of their farms, or deserted them, to obtain the means or the leisure to devote themselves to a species of dealing which never failed to turn to good account. Many who had also served their terms of transportation, instead of remaining to aid the public service, withdrew themselves from the stores,...
Page 46 - SPEAKING generally of the natives, they are a filthy, disagreeable race of people; nor is it my opinion that any measures which could be adopted would ever make them otherwise.
Page 44 - Spirits are also bought up with astonishing rapidity ; and, when prohibited, will ever be obtained by some means or other, and I have known it to sell as high as thirty shillings per bottle ; the general price by the retailer, however, is from ten to sixteen shillings per bottle. Most of the people in the colony, male and female, give way to excessive drinking. Wines are not so eagerly sought after, and are therefore more reasonable than might be expected ; but if the rage for luxuries continues...
Page 46 - ... a measure expedient. They are amazingly expert at throwing the spear, and will launch it with unerring aim to a distance of thirty to sixty yards. I myself have seen a lad hurl his spear at a hawk-eagle (a bird which, with wings expanded, measures from seven to ten feet), flying in the air, with such velocity and correctness as to pierce his object, and bring the feathered victim to the earth.
Page 44 - The shops are particularly respectable, and decorated with much taste. Articles of female apparel and ornament are greedily purchased ; for the European women in the settlement spare no expense in ornamenting their persons, and in dress, each seems to vie with the other in extravagance.
Page 31 - He expressed a very considerable degree of displeasure, when he was in a state of sanity, at his name being affixed to a narrative, which he knew only by report, as being about to be published, and which subsequently did appear under a deceptions mask.
Page 13 - Ponds, about half-way between Parramatta and Hawkesbury, and a short parley ensued, when the Colonel found it necessary to fire upon them ; and, after killing several of the misguided rebels, and making prisoners of the principals who survived, the remainder made a rapid retreat. Ten of the leaders of this insurrection, who had been observed as particularly conspicuous and zealous in their endeavours to seduce the rest, were. tried on the 8th of March, and capitally convicted.
Page 32 - Campbell and'Co.'laden with a quantity of provisions and stores to supply the settlements to the southward, and a very handsome brig, called the Harrington, from Madras, were seized and taken off. The former, when she had reached the place of her destination., after coming to an anchor, and landing the master with...
Page 84 - ... if he would not make him say from whence he got them; nor do I believe it less true that records of an examination wherein a respectable young man was innocently engaged have been destroyed by the same magistrate befcre whom the depositions were taken.