First Twenty Years of Australia: A History Founded on Official Documents

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S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882 - Australia - 256 pages
 

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Page 123 - ye rising realms! record Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word. There shall broad streets their stately walls extend, The circus widen, and the crescent bend; There ray'd from cities o'er the cultur'd land, Shall bright canals, and solid roads expand.
Page 178 - You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an intercourse with the natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all our subjects to live in amity and kindness with them...
Page 5 - As I would not wish convicts to lay the foundations of an empire, I think they should ever remain separated from the garrison, and other settlers that may come from Europe...
Page 47 - I am called upon to execute a most painful duty. You are charged by the respectable inhabitants of crimes that render you unfit to exercise the supreme authority another moment in this colony ; and in that charge all the officers serving under my command have joined.
Page 108 - ... ewes of which his flocks were composed with Spanish rams. The lambs produced from this cross were much improved ; but when they were again crossed, the change far exceeded his most sanguine expectations. In four crosses, he is of opinion, no distinction will be perceptible between the pure and the mixed breed. As a proof of the extraordinary and rapid improvement of his flocks, Captain Macarthur has exhibited the fleece of a coarse-woolled ewe, that has been valued at yd.
Page 145 - His Majesty's Subjects in resorting to and continuing among the different islands in and about Bass's Straits, for Skins and Oil, to the Hindrance of the Coasting Trade of this Territory and its Dependencies...
Page 191 - I beheld a sight truly shocking to the feelings of humanity, a great number of them laying, some half and others nearly quite naked, without either bed or bedding, unable to turn or help themselves. Spoke to them as I passed along, but the smell was so offensive that I could scarcely bear it.
Page 7 - We got into Port Jackson early in the afternoon, and had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security...
Page 123 - There shall tall spires and dome-capt towers ascend, And piers and quays their massy structures blend ; While with each breeze approaching vessels glide, And Northern treasures dance on every tide...
Page 117 - I expected, many of them dying when about a year old. I endeavoured to find out the cause of this mortality, being equally anxious to promote a hardy breed of sheep as well as to improve the fleece. " At this time I fed the whole of my sheep in the woodlands. The grass was often very long and coarse, and also wet either with the dews or rain, as the sun could not dry the ground, from the thickness of the timber. It occurred to me that the...

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