History of Austral-Asia: Comprising New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island, Swan River, South Australia, &c |
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Page 363 - Holland, to which the colonist might venture with every prospect of success, and in whose valleys the exile might hope to build for himself and for his family a peaceful and prosperous home. All who have ever landed upon the eastern shore of St. Vincent's Gulf, agree as to the richness of its soil, and the abundance of its pasture.
Page 323 - ... per acre for all the land not so cultivated or improved, into the public chest of the settlement; and, at the expiration of seven years more, so much of the whole grant as should remain in an uncultivated or unimproved state was to revert absolutely to the Crown.
Page 71 - On the 3d, the main channel of the river was much contracted but very deep, the banks being under water from a foot to eighteen inches : the stream continued for about twenty miles on the same course as yesterday, when we lost sight of land and trees, the channel of the river winding through reeds, among which the water was about three feet deep, the current having the same direction as the river. It continued in this manner for near four miles more ; when, without any previous change in the breadth,...
Page 363 - Supposing a line to be drawn from the parallel of 34» 40' to the eastward, it will strike the Murray river about 25 miles above the head of the lake, and will clear the ranges, of which Mount Lofty and Mount Barker are the respective terminations. This line will cut off a space whose greatest breadth will be 55 miles, whose length from north to south will be 75, and •whose surface exceeds...
Page 273 - When there has been no particular storm about the time of the Spring equinox (March 21,) if a storm arise from the east on or before that day, or if a storm from any point of the compass arise near a week after the equinox, then, in either of these cases, the succeeding .summer is generally dry, four times in five.
Page 322 - His Majesty's Government do not intend to incur any expense in conveying settlers to the new colony on the Swan River, and will not feel bound to defray the expense of supplying them with provisions or other necessaries after their arrival there, nor to assist their removal to England or elsewhere, should they be desirous of quitting the colony.
Page 158 - And, for the protection of persons acting in the execution of this act, be it enacted, that all actions and prosecutions to be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act...
Page 150 - exercise the jurisdictions and powers hereby granted concerning all and singular the premises, according to law, as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the justices of the courts of King's Bench, common pleas and exchequer at Westminster, or any of them, may Appendix to Opinion of the Court.
Page 101 - ... are cold and barren, and the mountain tops warm and fertile ; the nettle is a lofty tree, and the poplar a dwarfish shrub ; the pears are of wood...
Page 355 - ... but living entirely on kangaroos, emus, and small porcupines, and getting spirits and tobacco in barter for the skins which they lay up during the sealing season. They dress in kangaroo skins without linen, and wear sandals made of seal skins.