Proposal to His Majesty's Government for Founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of AustraliaW. Nicol, 1831 - 40 halaman |
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able to produce abundance acre affords ample supply anchor appropriation of land beach Blue Mountains boats Boston Island capital and labour capitalists Captain Flinders Captain Sutherland CLEVELAND-ROW close COAST OF AUSTRALIA Coffin's Bay colonists Company Company's capital Company's land considerable Corny Point crossed the Island cultivate Diemen's Land discovered dities Encounter Bay established extent of waste fathoms fertile founding the colony Fowler's Bay fresh water Governor grass harbour Kangaroo Island kangaroos and emus Library of South lot or lots main land Majesty's Government male adult population ment minimum price MODE OF COLONIZATION modern colony mother country natives Nepean Bay NICOL obtained ployed Point Marsden Port Lincoln procuring produce exchangeable commodities profitable proposed colony purpose river salt seal skins settlement shelter ship Shoal shore slavery soil South Australia South Wales southern coast Spencer's Gulf spot thickly timber tion trees Van Diemen's Land Voyage whole winds wood xerographic
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Halaman 39 - ... them on every trifling occasion ; and when at last some of these marauders were taken off the Island by an expedition from New South Wales, these women were landed on the main with their children and dogs, to procure a subsistence, not knowing how their own people might treat them after a long absence.
Halaman 38 - THE CLIMATE appeared to me very temperate, and not subject to oppressive heat, nor do the rains fall in torrents as at Sydney ; the dews are heavy, but not injurious to health, which we had ample opportunity of proving, owing to the frequent exposure of our men, many of whom...
Halaman 36 - Land, there might be on this plain, on the average three or four trees to the acre. I once crossed the Island, a distance of about sixty miles in two days. Once past the belt of wood which surrounds the Island, we walked straight on end over the plains, found plenty of water in ponds, saw abundance of kangaroos and emus, and met with no difficulty or trouble. As we crossed the Island I looked to the right and left...
Halaman 35 - ... miles, always dry at half ebb for nearly the whole distance. The shore is thickly lined with wood and shrubs, interspersed with several high hills protecting the anchorage : the opposite coast on the main is Cape St.
Halaman 38 - The winds there are regular land and sea breezes, with occasional calms ; during the winter months strong south westerly winds prevail, but are not of any duration, and cannot throw any sea into the anchorages to injure the shipping, they being completely landlocked ; — a vessel, on making for the Island, must be careful in not standing too close to the shore, until they ascertain their true position, as several dangers are still unexplored on the southern part of the Island : this I would leave...
Halaman 37 - ... spars and other purposes of ship-building. Twenty years ago, an American ship was cast away on the coast, and the crew built a schooner in Lagoon Bay, which enabled them to get away, after a residence of several months on the island. Salt is produced here in abundance ; I should say between two and three hundred tons could be collected from the lagoon with a little attention ; the distance to the beach is about three-quarters of a mile, and from the beach to where ships anchor about four miles....
Halaman 21 - Captain Flinders remarks he found in one part ' much refuse from the shore, as well as sea-weed floating about, by which some hope of finding a river was entertained ;' and subsequently, ' besides quantities of grass and branches of trees or bushes floating in the water, there was a number of long gauze-winged insects topping about the surface, such as frequent freshwater lakes and swamps.
Halaman 36 - Land. In the neighbourhood of Sydney I have not observed any equal to it. Trees are scattered every where over the plains — the Swamp Oak or Beef wood, and the Wattle (both of which indicate good land) are growing in abundance here. Close on the shore, within from a quarter to half a mile from the sea, the wood is very thick ; but when this belt of wood is passed, you come on to an open country, covered with grass, where there are often hundreds of acres without a tree...
Halaman 22 - My examination was tolerably minute to be " done wholly in a ship, but much still remained, " which boats would best accomplish, to make the " survey complete, especially in the bays of the
Halaman 37 - In the other places, close short grass was found between the coarse high patches. While crossing the Island we saw plenty of parrots and wild pigeons, and black swans on the lagoons. PRODUCTIONS. With the exception of salt, the timber appears the principal production we have observed of this place. The trees are the same as at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ; some run exceedingly high and large in circumference, and may be converted into every domestic purpose as well as maritime ; as many...