The History of New South Wales from Its First Discovery to the Present Time: Comprising an Accurate and Interesting Description of that Vast and Remarkable Country and of the Persons, Manners and Customs of the Natives : with a Succinct Detail of the Establishment and Progress of the English Colony : to which is Added a Description of Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island : with Reflections on the Importance of the Southern ContinentMackenzie and Dent, 1811 - 624 sivua |
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... labour ex- pended in the compilation , and this shall be given at the conclusion . Trusting to the discernment of an enlightened public for remuneration , the publishers usher , with confidence , this little work into the world ; a work ...
... labour ex- pended in the compilation , and this shall be given at the conclusion . Trusting to the discernment of an enlightened public for remuneration , the publishers usher , with confidence , this little work into the world ; a work ...
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... labour at New South Wales . All communica- tion with families and friends now cut off , they were leaving the world behind them , to enter on a state unknown ; and , as if it had been necessary to imprint this idea more strongly on ...
... labour at New South Wales . All communica- tion with families and friends now cut off , they were leaving the world behind them , to enter on a state unknown ; and , as if it had been necessary to imprint this idea more strongly on ...
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... labour , the confusion of camps and towns , and the busy hum of its new possessors . This impressive scene has not escaped the notice of the painter and the poet . The ingenious Mr Wedgewood model- led a medallion from a small piece of ...
... labour , the confusion of camps and towns , and the busy hum of its new possessors . This impressive scene has not escaped the notice of the painter and the poet . The ingenious Mr Wedgewood model- led a medallion from a small piece of ...
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... labour was with difficulty procured from them . Governor Phillip soon found , with great regret , though doubtless , without much surprize , that in the community committed to his care , the strict enforcement of the sanctions of law ...
... labour was with difficulty procured from them . Governor Phillip soon found , with great regret , though doubtless , without much surprize , that in the community committed to his care , the strict enforcement of the sanctions of law ...
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... labour they often assisted with cheerful- ness , and in return were generally rewarded with part of the fish taken . Every precaution was used to guard against a breach of this friendly and desirable intercourse , by strictly ...
... labour they often assisted with cheerful- ness , and in return were generally rewarded with part of the fish taken . Every precaution was used to guard against a breach of this friendly and desirable intercourse , by strictly ...
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acres appeared arms arrived attended Bennillong Bligh boat Botany Bay Broken Bay brought Cape Captain cargo cattle circumstance coast Colonel Colonel Paterson colony command Court Cove ditto employed England erected feet female convicts fire fish Flinders Governor Governor Bligh Governor Hunter Governor Phillip ground hand harbour Hawkesbury head Hill hundred huts inhabitants labour land Lieutenant Lieutenant-Governor M'Arthur magistrates maize Majesty's Major Johnston male convicts ment miles month murder natives necessary Norfolk Island observed occasion officers Parramatta party persons Port Jackson pounds present prisoners procure provisions punishment purpose quantity ration received river sailed savages seen sent settlement settlers ship shore side Sirius situation soldiers soon South Wales corps spear spirits Supply Sydney Sydney Cove taken tion transport trees Van Dieman's Land vessel voyage weather wheat women woods wounded
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Sivu 20 - Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies and the storm repels, High on a rock, amid the troubled air, Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair...
Sivu 522 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Sivu 583 - No person shall be liable to be tried and punished by a general court-martial for any offence which shall appear to have been committed more than two years before the issuing of the order for such trial, unless the person, by reason of having absented himself, or some other manifest impediment, shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Sivu 533 - By the Command of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent in the Name and on the behalf of His Majesty BATHURST.
Sivu 564 - Atkins, more particularly, he has been accustomed to inebriety; he has been the ridicule of the community; sentences of Death have been pronounced in moments of intoxication ; his determination is weak; his opinion floating and infirm; his knowledge of the Law insignificant and subservient to private inclination...
Sivu 79 - ... to remit, either absolutely or conditionally, the whole or any part of the time or term for which any such felons or...
Sivu 123 - The word which in their language signifies father was applied to their old men ; and when, after some time, and by close observation, they perceived the authority with which Governor Phillip commanded, and the obedience which he exacted, they bestowed on him the distinguishing appellation of Be-anna, or father.
Sivu 271 - Stephens, into which he carried three fathoms water in the shoalest part of its entrance, finding deep water and good anchorage within. " The entrance of this river was but narrow, and covered by a high rocky island lying right off it, so as to leave a good passage round the north end of the island between that and the shore. A reef connects the south part of the island with the south of the entrance of the river.
Sivu 533 - Captain General and Governor in Chief of the territory of New South Wales, from lat.
Sivu 609 - I had understood the Government at home had particularly recommended me to his notice. He replied, ' I have heard of your concerns, sir; you have got 5,000 acres of land in the finest situation in the country ; but, by God, you shan't keep it...