Australia and the East: Being a Journal Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales in an Emigrant Ship, with a Residence of Some Months in Sydney and the Bush, and the Route Home by Way of India and Egypt, in the Years 1841 and 1842J. Murray, 1843 - 465 páginas "The author went out to Sydney in the Lady Kennaway, 584 tons. He gives an interesting account of New South Wales in the late thirties under the administration of Sir George Gipps."--Abebooks website |
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... shillings a - week , the best may be got , and with a private room . Here a man knows his exact expenses , and can calculate to a shilling what he can afford for other enjoyments . But at the Royal Hotel , or such places , an ...
... shillings a - week , the best may be got , and with a private room . Here a man knows his exact expenses , and can calculate to a shilling what he can afford for other enjoyments . But at the Royal Hotel , or such places , an ...
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... shillings , every expense included . They have but one drawback - the danger of fire . A few houses which have been lately built are roofed with slates . Much of the wood used now in the inside work of the better mansions is cedar , of ...
... shillings , every expense included . They have but one drawback - the danger of fire . A few houses which have been lately built are roofed with slates . Much of the wood used now in the inside work of the better mansions is cedar , of ...
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... shillings per dozen pieces , which is a consideration when the stock of clothes is large ; and in the case of a newly - arrived settler there is no con- sideration in Australia so small as not to be worth atten- tion . The emigrant will ...
... shillings per dozen pieces , which is a consideration when the stock of clothes is large ; and in the case of a newly - arrived settler there is no con- sideration in Australia so small as not to be worth atten- tion . The emigrant will ...
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... shillings each ; and as the two assessors generally sit the whole day , they sometimes earn a very handsome remuneration . The advantages of this institution are these greater despatch than when the trial is by jury ; the withdrawal of ...
... shillings each ; and as the two assessors generally sit the whole day , they sometimes earn a very handsome remuneration . The advantages of this institution are these greater despatch than when the trial is by jury ; the withdrawal of ...
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... shillings to twelve shillings per acre ; the sudden doing away , almost at the same moment , of the assignment system , by which the amount paid by the settlers for wages is ruin- ously increased ; the frightful extent to which specu ...
... shillings to twelve shillings per acre ; the sudden doing away , almost at the same moment , of the assignment system , by which the amount paid by the settlers for wages is ruin- ously increased ; the frightful extent to which specu ...
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agreeable appearance arrived Australia bark Bathurst beautiful Bell River betwixt bird boat Boree Botany Bay brickfielder Britain bullocks bush bushrangers cabin called Cape capital Captain cattle chain of ponds climate colony comfort Connobolas convicts cuddy danger dark deck delightful distance district dray dreadful eight emancipist emigrants England feet fire flocks forest head heat horses island labour Lady Kennaway land last night Liverpool Plains look Moreton Bay morning mountains native never Norfolk Island Paramatta passed passengers plain poop poor Port Port Jackson pounds present resembles river road sails scarcely seen settlers sheep shepherds shillings ship shores side sight Sir George Gipps South Wales station storm SWAN RIVER COLONY Sydney thing to-day town trees tribe Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage weather whole wild wind wonderful wood wool young
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Página 439 - What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
Página 428 - Elanilic gulf to the southern extremity of the Lake Asphaltites or the Dead Sea ; and it was manifest by landmarks of nature's own providing, that over that sandy plain those seas had once mingled their waters, or, perhaps more probably, that before the cities of the plain had been consumed by brimstone and fire, and Sodom and Gomorrah covered by a pestilential lake, the Jordan had here rolled its waters. The valley varied from...
Página 427 - Standing near the shore of this northern extremity of the Red Sea, I saw before me an immense sandy valley, which, without the aid of geological science, to the eye of common observation and reason, had once been the bottom of a sea, or the bed of a river. This dreary valley, extending far beyond the reach of the eye, had been partly explored by...
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Página 304 - ... excess of such duties as are partly for the purpose of revenue, and partly for that of protection — that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of parliament. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will be pleased to \ take the subject into consideration, and to adopt such measures as may be calculated to give greater freedom to foreign commerce, and thereby to increase the resources of the state.
Página 428 - ... barren mountains, bounding it like a wall. On the left were the mountains of Judea, and on the right those of Seir, the portion given to Esau as an inheritance ; and among them, buried from the eyes of strangers, the approach to it known only to the wandering Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and blighted Edom of the Edomites. The land of fdumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on...