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SKKTCH OF VICTORIA. 



on our former visit, and 

 wishing to create among 

 our readers an interest 

 in the locality, we shall 

 here give a slight sketch 

 of the appearance of the 

 settlement from the an- 

 chorage, which will be 

 more effective than our 

 most elaborate descrip- 

 tion of it. 



Before taking leave 

 of this new colony, we 

 must at once express 

 a hope that it will not 

 be made a Penal settle- 

 ment ; not that we doubt 

 the wonderful decree in 

 which the convict system 

 has hastened the pros- 

 perity of our possessions 

 on the south-eastern part 

 of the continent ; but 

 from the proximity of 

 northern Australia to the 

 islands in the Arafura 

 sea — the waters separat- 

 ing them being often 

 navigable for boats — the 

 natives would be conta- 



-■■K'f'^'s 



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