IN NORTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; THE FUTURE COTTON-FIELD OF GREAT BRITAIN: ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES FOR EUROPEAN COLONIZATION. WITH A DISQUISITION ON THE ORIGIN, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE ABORIGINES. BY JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D., A.M., SENIOR MINISTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, AND MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES; HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LITERARY INSTITUTE OF OLINDA IN THE BRAZILS. Hæc tunc nomina erunt; nunc sunt sine nomine terrae. VIRG. ENEID, vi. 777. Be this, in future days, thy name, 30 LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXLVII. HARVARD COLLEGE OCT 51920 LIBRARY Class of 1751 fund EDINBURGH PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER VII.-Nature and Salubrity of the Climate of CHAPTER VIII.-Peculiar adaptation of the Territory of Cooksland for Immediate and Extensive Colonization, DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. Map of Cooksland to front Title-Page. ✓ Sketch of the Coast near Cape Byron, to front /View to the Northward at the opening of the Estuaries, ✓Susan Island, ✓ Portrait of Dr. Leichhardt, PAGE 12 37 38 44 46 48 312 BY THE SAME AUTHOR, Just Published, in one vol. 16mo, bound in Cloth, with Maps and Illustrations, Price 7s. 6d., PHILLIPSLAND; OR THE COUNTRY HITHERTO DESIGNATED PORT PHILLIP: ITS PRESENT Preparing for Publication, AN HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, both as a Penal Settlement, and as a British Colony. Third Edition: bringing down the History of the Colony to the close of the Administration of Sir George Gipps, in August 1846. Two vols. 16mo. TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN, WHEN the project of forming a British Colony on some part of the Southern Coast of Australia-chiefly with a view to the carrying out of a new theory of colonization-was in agitation in London in the year 1834, I took the liberty, on meeting with certain of the projectors of that Colony, to recommend that they should by all means give it a distinctive and appropriate designation, and suggested that, in honour of the reigning Sovereign, His late Majesty King William IV., (in whose reign the new theory had been projected,) it should be called WILLIAMSLAND. fortunately, however, my suggestion was not received; and the godfathers and godmothers of the first-born of the Wakefield theory, named the child SOUTH AUS TRALIA. Un It was as absurd a name for a colony in any such locality, as if the British Colony of Demerara had been called South America, or the island of Ireland, West Europe. It was neither distinctive nor appropriate, as every proper name ought to be; not distinctive, because it applies equally to any part of the extensive coast line from Cape Howe, the south-eastern, to Cape Leeuwin, the south-western extremity of the Α |