Six Months in South Australia: With Some Account of Port Philip and Portland Bay in Australia Felix; with Advice to Emigrants, to which is Added a Monthly Calendar of Gardening and Agriculture Adapted to the Climate and Seasons |
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Page 162 - gin to fear that thou art past all aid From me and from my calling; yet so young, I still would— Man. Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure— some of study— Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness,— Some of disease— and some insanity— And some of withered, or of broken hearts; For this last is a malady which slays More than are numbered in the...
Page 207 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Page 44 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary...
Page 266 - II. per acre, in sections (only) of 80 acres each; and the parties making such purchases are allowed the privilege of selecting servants and labourers for a. free passage, at the rate of one person for every 20/.
Page 31 - ... made some glaring modern additions. But the side where the Parliament House should have been is shabby and in decline. Light's plans for the city entertained his contemporaries. Thus Mr. T. Horton James in his engaging book: The town of Adelaide, as depicted on the maps, is the very beau ideal of all possible cities — there is an elegance and vastness of design about it, that almost makes one blush for the comparative insignificance of London and Stromboul; of Paris and Canton : — but on...
Page 58 - ... disfigured, that he seemed like an imp of Erebus ready for his prey, while all the spectators seemed to feel a thrill of horror creeping through their veins. It was a moment of the most intense and exciting interest — many wished they had not come — and, as the procession advanced, the well-known service for the burial of the dead was heard from the mouth of that excellent man, the Rev. Mr. Howard, the colonial chaplain, bringing up the rear, " I am the resurrection and the life," and all...
Page 30 - ... contain the daily supply for the port, and the drivers very cheerfully give them all a drink; this enables them to walk on with renewed spirits, over the naked plain, and, tired and dusty, in about seven miles more they reach another iron store, the property of the commissioners, where they now begin to see a few marquees and huts, and people walking about. They step across the 'Torrens,' without knowing it, and enquire for the inn . . . and so come into Adelaide as our grandfathers knew it.
Page 29 - Packages of goods and heaps of merchandize are lying about in every direction as if they had cost nothing. Stacks of what were once beautiful London bricks crumbling away like ginger-bread, and evidently at each returning tide half covered with the flood ; trusses of hay, now rotten, and Norway deals, scattered about as if they had no owner — iron ploughs and rusty harrows — cases of door frames and windows that had once been glazed — heaps of the best slates, half tumbling down — winnowing...
Page 38 - Sydney; and a person coming from the eastern colonies would not fail to be struck with the superior ruddiness, simplicity, and purity of the South Australian damsels.