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... soon became too apparent . Ruin stared every one in the face ; all credit was gone ; those who had been living luxuriously , either absconded , or declared themselves hope- lessly insolvent . The agents , not being able to realize their ...
... soon became too apparent . Ruin stared every one in the face ; all credit was gone ; those who had been living luxuriously , either absconded , or declared themselves hope- lessly insolvent . The agents , not being able to realize their ...
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... soon found that , from the natural excel- lence of the land , all kinds of corn and vege- table produce grew luxuriantly ; and still more , that the price of all these products was such as to yield them a handsome return ; and thus that ...
... soon found that , from the natural excel- lence of the land , all kinds of corn and vege- table produce grew luxuriantly ; and still more , that the price of all these products was such as to yield them a handsome return ; and thus that ...
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... soon as possible . The principal part of our male adult population consisted of about 17,000 from twenty - one to forty - five years of age ; and it is computed that out of this number 10,000 have left the colony within the last few ...
... soon as possible . The principal part of our male adult population consisted of about 17,000 from twenty - one to forty - five years of age ; and it is computed that out of this number 10,000 have left the colony within the last few ...
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... soon obliged to leave us again when they find that their gold - dust and nuggets have no exchangeable value with us . This has produced the most baneful effects on business . Our merchants and tradesmen have been peti- tioning and ...
... soon obliged to leave us again when they find that their gold - dust and nuggets have no exchangeable value with us . This has produced the most baneful effects on business . Our merchants and tradesmen have been peti- tioning and ...
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... soon . make its appearance on the right , and our course would then lie between shores that stretched away on either side , bold and high and everywhere surmounted by the evergreen forest that thence stretched inland . In the distance ...
... soon . make its appearance on the right , and our course would then lie between shores that stretched away on either side , bold and high and everywhere surmounted by the evergreen forest that thence stretched inland . In the distance ...
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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...