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Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia, during the years 1828,1829,1830, and 1831 with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales / By Capt. Charles Sturt.

  • Charles Sturt
Date:
1833
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Credit: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia, during the years 1828,1829,1830, and 1831 with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales / By Capt. Charles Sturt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Moroyo River to the south of Sydney on the one hand, and to the Manning River on the other, including Wellington Valley within its limits to the westward. Thus it will appear that the boundaries of the located parts of the colony have been considerably enlarged, and some fine districts of country included within them. In consequence of its extent and increasing population, it has been found convenient to divide it into counties, parishes, and townships; and indeed, every measure of the Colonial Go- vernment of late years, has had for its object to assimilate its internal arrangements, as nearly as possible, to those of the mother country. Whether we are to attribute the present flourish- ing state of the colony to the beneficial in- fluence of that system of government which has been exercised over it for the last seven years it is not for me to say. That the pro- sperity of a country depends, however, in a great measure, on the wisdom of its legislature, is as undoubted, as that within the period I have mentioned the colony of N. S. Wales has risen unprecedentedly in importance and in wealth, and has advanced to a state of im-
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