The History of Tasmania, Volume 1H. Dowling, 1852 - 380 pages Author's copy. Printed, with MS. corrections and annotations by the author. Handwriting identical with that in a letter from West to Edward Wise, 5 June 1864 in ML MSS. 1327/3, pp. 315-317. 1. pp. 209-340 are missing, with blank pages inserted at the back used for annotations. 2. identical with other copies of the volume. |
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... native country . They will , hereafter , guide its affairs , extend its commerce , and defend its soil ; and , not inferior in virtue and intelligence , they will fill an important position in the vast system of Australasia . To gratify ...
... native country . They will , hereafter , guide its affairs , extend its commerce , and defend its soil ; and , not inferior in virtue and intelligence , they will fill an important position in the vast system of Australasia . To gratify ...
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... natives several lives were lost thence they passed Tongataboo , Amsterdam , and Rot- terdam , and arrived at Batavia on the 15th June , 1643 . Tasman closes his journal with his usual devotion : " God be praised for this happy voyage ...
... natives several lives were lost thence they passed Tongataboo , Amsterdam , and Rot- terdam , and arrived at Batavia on the 15th June , 1643 . Tasman closes his journal with his usual devotion : " God be praised for this happy voyage ...
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... natives fle pursuers found in the wood a dying savage - the fir of European intrusion . Marion and some othe injured slightly by the missiles of the natives , and servant was wounded by a spear . The remarks they made are of no great ...
... natives fle pursuers found in the wood a dying savage - the fir of European intrusion . Marion and some othe injured slightly by the missiles of the natives , and servant was wounded by a spear . The remarks they made are of no great ...
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... natives , and will be no history of that unfortunate people . On the 3rd July , 1789 , the brig Mercury , Cox , master , entered a deep bay on the south Diemen's Land , and was about ten miles from the attempting Adventure Bay , he was ...
... natives , and will be no history of that unfortunate people . On the 3rd July , 1789 , the brig Mercury , Cox , master , entered a deep bay on the south Diemen's Land , and was about ten miles from the attempting Adventure Bay , he was ...
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... the channels and rivers of the coast . The surgeon of the Geographe , Monge , fell by an attack of the natives , and was buried on the spot which bears his name . * The French surveyed the eastern 16 HISTORY OF TASMANIA .
... the channels and rivers of the coast . The surgeon of the Geographe , Monge , fell by an attack of the natives , and was buried on the spot which bears his name . * The French surveyed the eastern 16 HISTORY OF TASMANIA .
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Page 29 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 29 - Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities.
Page 19 - Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies and the storm repels, High on a rock, amid the troubled air, Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair...
Page 29 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate, indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, Sir, if turning from such thoughts I resume this comparative view once more.
Page 267 - I do not think that that time is yet approaching. But let us make them as far as possible fit to govern themselves ; let us give them, as far as we can, the capacity of ruling their own affairs ; let them increase in wealth and population ; and, whatever may happen, we of this great empire shall have the consolation of saying that we have contributed to the happiness of the world.
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Page 318 - ... being pressed, he was forced to try to swim across the arm of the sea, which, at the place where he took the water, cannot have been less than two miles broad. In spite of a fresh breeze and a...
Page 29 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Page 322 - Petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred yards, or more, in breadth; the birds were not scattered but flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow; and during a full hour and a half, this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation I think the number could not have been less than a hundred millions...
Page 318 - ... two. I can give no idea of the length of time it took him to run this distance, but it took us something more than two hours ; and it was evident...