AN HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, BOTH AS A PENAL SETTLEMENT AND AS A BRITISH COLONY. BY JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D., SENIOR MINISTER OF THE SCOTS CHURCH, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE "We have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good."-JUDGES Xviii. 9. SECOND EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BRINGING DOWN THE HISTORY OF THE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET: BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH. 1837. 429. EXTRACT FROM THE PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT OF THE FIRST EDITION. HAVING found it necessary to undertake a voyage from New South Wales to England in the month of July, 1833, on business connected with the Australian College, and with the Presbyterian Church in communion with the Church of Scotland, in that colony, and having accordingly obtained leave of absence for twelve months from His Excellency Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, the present Governor of New South Wales, it appeared to me that I could not employ the leisure of a long and dreary voyage more usefully for my adopted country, than in drawing up a series of sketches, for publication in England, illustrative of its past history and of its present condition. The following work was accordingly commenced immediately after we had lost sight of the Australian land; and the first seven chapters were written chiefly in the high latitudes of the Southern Pacific, before doubling |