Port Phillip Settlement

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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivingston, 1883 - Australia - 537 pages
 

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Page 521 - Admitting, as every reasonable person must, that a certain degree of concentration is necessary for the advancement of wealth and civilization, and that it enables Government to become at once efficient and economical, I cannot avoid perceiving the peculiarities which, in this Colony, render it impolitic and even impossible to restrain dispersion within limits that would be expedient elsewhere.
Page 396 - I have the honour to remain, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, GEORGE BORROW.
Page 130 - Bay; the soil was very rich on the overhanging cliffs, and the potatoes and turnips produced there, surpassed in magnitude and quality any I had ever seen elsewhere. I learnt that the bay was much resorted to by vessels engaged in the whale fishery, and that upwards of 700 tons of oil had been shipped that season. I was likewise informed that only a few days before my arrival, five vessels lay at anchor together in that bay, and that a communication was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Land by...
Page 108 - His Majesty's Government do not intend to incur any expense in conveying settlers to the New Colony on the Swan River...
Page 349 - Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :— 1.
Page 362 - CD (in his actual possession, now being- by virtue of a bargain and sale to him thereof made by the said CD in consideration of 5$. in and by an indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date of...
Page 49 - The land behind us was the abode of a civilised people — that, before us was the residence of savages. When, if ever, we might again enjoy the commerce of the world was doubtful and uncertain. The refreshments and the pleasures of which we had so liberally partaken at the Cape...
Page 189 - The boat went up the large river I have s^joken of, which comes from the east, and I am glad to state, about six miles up found the river all good water and very deep. THIS WILL BE THE PLACE FOR A VILLAGE.
Page 130 - One shot was heard as we drew near them, and another on our ascending the rocks. I then became somewhat apprehensive that the parties might either be, or suppose us to be, bushrangers, and to prevent, if possible, some such awkward mistake, I ordered a man to fire a gun, and the bugle to be sounded ; but, on reaching the higher ground, we discovered not only a beaten path, but the track of two carts, and while we were following the latter, a man came towards us from the face of the cliffs. He informed...
Page 44 - I shall add nothing further on the subject, but that were I to settle in the upper part of the harbour, which is full of natives, I should require four times the force I have now to guard not only the convicts, but perhaps myself from their attacks. I cannot but suppose that all the disadvantages of Port Phillip are as well known to your Excellency as they are to myself at this moment. If they are, you will have anticipated this report, but it may not have entered into your contemplation that there...

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