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CHAPTER IV. 



Road from Paramatta to Liverpool— Dismal appearance of 

 the uncleared land — Liverpool — Arrival at Raby Farm — 

 The opossum — Prisoners and free men — Advantage of 

 being sentenced to an iron gang — London pickpockets 

 converted into shepherds— Suggestion with regard to the 

 convicts — Leave Raby — Mr. Jones's farm— Cultivation of 

 the vine — Sameness -of the forest scenery in Australia — 

 Lose our way — Journey resumed — Gloomy appearance of 

 the Australian vegetation— The tea tree — Colonial farms — 

 Emu-ford — Blue Mountain range — The Pilgrim Inn — 

 View from Lapstone Hill — Variety of flowering shrubs — 

 A beautiful garden — Road over the Blue Mountains — 

 Picturesque prospects — A mountain station — Bleak air of 

 the place — Our supper. 



On the 13th of September, I proceeded from 

 Paramatta to Raby farm, near the cow pastures, 

 (distant twenty-one miles from Paramatta,) at 

 that time the residence of my friend Mr. Button. 

 The road from Paramatta to Liverpool was in 

 excellent condition, but the land on each side 

 was for the most part uncleared ; and, being 



