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... course by these beneficent winds , we soon reached the tropics ; every day at noon we saw the sun reaching to a higher and a higher point , until it appeared directly above our heads . The wind gradually became lighter until we arrived ...
... course by these beneficent winds , we soon reached the tropics ; every day at noon we saw the sun reaching to a higher and a higher point , until it appeared directly above our heads . The wind gradually became lighter until we arrived ...
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... course with railway speed . Now we approached the Cape , and , rounding it , entered the Indian Ocean . The winds being still favourable , it was not long before we reached the welcome " half way house " between the Cape and Australia ...
... course with railway speed . Now we approached the Cape , and , rounding it , entered the Indian Ocean . The winds being still favourable , it was not long before we reached the welcome " half way house " between the Cape and Australia ...
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... course . The lucky sailor who had given the information , in coming down the rigging , would have had grog enough for a week's con- sumption if he had accepted all the offers that were made to him ; and although the desired point , or ...
... course . The lucky sailor who had given the information , in coming down the rigging , would have had grog enough for a week's con- sumption if he had accepted all the offers that were made to him ; and although the desired point , or ...
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... directed their course to that colony . This con- sequently stopped those supplies of money to Adelaide which had hitherto sustained the mania . The agents were soon compelled to restrict their credits and 28 A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA.
... directed their course to that colony . This con- sequently stopped those supplies of money to Adelaide which had hitherto sustained the mania . The agents were soon compelled to restrict their credits and 28 A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA.
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... course of proceed- ing was made too late to save the colony from the disastrous effects which we have spoken of , it was still in time to prevent it from being entirely and irretrievably lost . The real value and fertility of the land ...
... course of proceed- ing was made too late to save the colony from the disastrous effects which we have spoken of , it was still in time to prevent it from being entirely and irretrievably lost . The real value and fertility of the land ...
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abundance Adelaide appearance Australia banks beautiful become birds blue brought buildings called character coast colony considerable continued course delightful direction discovered discovery distance district effect England equal established excellent existence extent fact feel feet field four Geelong give gold ground half hand harbour head hills hundred interest Island kangaroo known labour land latter leave less looking Melbourne miles miners months Mount Mountains nature nearly never once parties passed persons population Port Port Phillip portion possessed present principal produce progress purchase quantity range rapid rich rising river rocks scarcely seen sheep ship shores side sight soon South South Wales stream streets supply Sydney taken thirty thousand tion town trees variety vessel week whole wind wood yield
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Page 11 - ... of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller...
Page 158 - They consist often of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends in the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant.
Page 92 - Thus, under the blessing of God, was happily completed, in eight months and one week, a voyage which, before it was undertaken, the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination.
Page 90 - ... guard and the convicts who had been landed in the morning. The spot chosen for this purpose was at the head of the cove, near the run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interrupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquillity which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and...
Page 10 - ... we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated...
Page 11 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon.
Page 95 - OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail : For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale...
Page 10 - From the time we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the Southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the...
Page 95 - All feel the assault of Fortune's fickle gale: Art, empire, earth itself to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd : And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd.
Page 142 - ... the north is the hot wind, and the south the cold; where the humblest house is fitted up with cedar...