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AUSTRALIA,
VAN DIEMAN'S LAND,
AND
NEW ZEALAND;
THEIR HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE,
WITH THEIR PROSPECTS IN REGARD TO
EMIGRATION,
IMPARTIALLY EXAMINED
NEW EDITION.
LONDON:
CRADOCK AND CO. 48, PATERNOSTER ROW.
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Compton & Ritchie Printers. Middle Street, Cich[?] Farr[?].
[PREFACE]
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TO THE READER.
THE object of the following pages is to present the intending Emigrant to the Southern Hemisphere with a "Hand Book" of Useful Knowledge relating to Australia, Van Dieman's Land, and New Zealand.
To effect this desideratum, the Editor has consulted every modern work of authority, including the narratives of the most recent travellers, which he has condensed with care; taking pains to preserve the precise meaning and intent of every eyewitness from whose works he has made extracts.
The hardy and enterprising sons of Great Britain are now to be found at the remotest ends of the earth, rearing their habitations in the midst of scenes of barbarism and desolation. A superabundant and rapidly increasing population still induces a continued tide of emigration from the mother country to every part of Australia, where the toil and industry of man are likely to procure for him the necessaries of life; it, therefore, becomes an affair of importance to the settler to gain every possible information respecting this distant quarter of the globe.
To furnish him with such knowledge has been the aim of this little volume; and the Editor hopes that he has presented a true picture of our Australian Settlements, and of all that is yet known of New Zealand.
R. R.
[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
New South Wales.......................................2
Western Australia and Swan River..................16
Port Philip................................................24
South Australia..........................................27
Kangaroo Island..........................................37
Port Essington...........................................39
Van Dieman's Land.....................................40
New Zealand.............................................44
