Early Tasmania: Papers Read Before the Royal Society of Tasmania During the Years 1888 to 1899J. Vail, 1914 - Всего страниц: 280 |
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Стр. 208 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 273 - This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which...
Стр. 64 - from the middle of March to the middle of September work was to go on from 5 am till between 7 and 8 pm, with half an hour for breakfast, and an hour and a half for dinner and for the midday sleep.
Стр. 273 - And that is the reason why the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is such a quantity of shallow mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
Стр. 153 - The dwelling of devils in human shape, the refuse of Botany Bay, the doubly damned.
Стр. 104 - Streights, renders it in a political view peculiarly necessary that a settlement should be formed there ; and as far as the reports of those who have visited that coast can be depended upon, it is strongly recommended by the nature of the soil and the goodness of the climate.
Стр. 147 - ... expected. By kind treatment, however, and indulgence in their own inclinations, they soon began to be more sociable. They were then given to understand the situation and short distance of New Zealand from Norfolk Island, and were assured that as soon as they had taught our women to work the flax they should be sent home again. On this promise they readily consented to give all the information they possessed, and which turned out to be very little. This operation was found to be among them the...
Стр. 96 - Was seen ; indeed the kangaroo seems to reign undisturbed lord of the soil, a dominion which, by the evacuation of Port Phillip, he is likely to retain for ages.
Стр. 100 - Here he found an open ocean westward, and by the mountainous sea which rolled from that quarter, and no land discoverable in that direction, we have much reason to conclude that there is an open strait through, between the latitude of 39 and 40' 12 S., a circumstance which, from many observations made upon tides and currents thereabouts, I had long conjectured.!
Стр. 14 - How then came M. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth? Was he a man destitute of all principle? My answer is that I believe his candour to have been equal to his acknowledged abilities, and that 'what he wrote was from over-ruling authority, and smote him to the heart: he did not live to finish the second volume.