Five Years' Experience in Australia Felix: Comprising a Short Account of Its Early Settlement and Its Present Position, with Many Particulars Interesting to Intending Emigrants
Five Years' Experience in Australia Felix: Comprising a Short Account of Its Early Settlement and Its Present Position, with Many Particulars Interesting to Intending Emigrants
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...old England, and more likely to make a lasting impression on his mind than many of far higher pretensions. The little daisy may here be seen interspersed with foreign beauties, appealing strongly to the eye and the heart of those who have not been absent from Britain so long as to forget its green meadows and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...old England, and more likely to make a lasting impression on his mind than many of far higher pretensions. The little daisy may here be seen interspersed with foreign beauties, appealing strongly to the eye and the heart of those who have not been absent from Britain so long as to forget its green meadows and its " gowan's fine." The common mushroom and several other kinds of fungi are plentiful in the woods at certain seasons of the year, and are made use of by the natives, and also by Europeans for food. The flavour of the mushroom is in no wise inferior to the British variety, and grows to a much larger size. Richard Howitt, the emigrant poet, celebrated his meeting with one of these flowers in the bush of Australia Felix by verses published in the Port Philip Magazine, of February, 1843. This gentleman has since returned to England, and has written a work "Impressions of Australia Felix," derogatory to the colony, but which should nevertheless be read by intending emigrants. CHAPTER V. OF THE ABOBIGINAL INHABITANTS. The subjects treated of in this chapter, should be of peculiar interest to those who intend emigration and are about occupying the lands of the aborigines, and also to the general reader, whether he regard the numbers, qualities of mind, habits, adaptation for civilization, or the future destiny of a class of people who it is to be feared are fast diminishing before the white man's progress. It will be appropriate to this portion of my subject to enquire how far the protectorate department have fulfilled their duties, and with what success in their attempts to improve and civilize the native inhabitants of this province, and if after allowing that the officers composing this experimental corps have done their best, whether the...
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