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part reaped ; a few scattered patches animated by 

 the verdure of the young maize springing up, 

 and the yellow flowers of the native " Jibbong," 

 (Persoonia sp.,) with a few other flowering shrubs, 

 scattered about, was all that cheered the eye of 

 the traveller on the journey. I arrived at Sydney 

 on the 2nd of Jan. 1833. 



The houses by the road side, on the approach 

 to Sydney from Liverpool, or Paramatta, are 

 very neat in their construction. A bark-hut near 

 the "metropolis" is daily becoming rarer; they 

 are speedily giving place to neat and even 

 elegant verandah cottages. There are Certainly 

 an abundance of public-houses in the colony, 

 and the neat, clean appearance of the attendants, 

 as well as the interior of the inns, may vie with 

 those in the mother-country. The signs of the 

 taverns assume every variety, all but that of 

 Temperance. 



It has often been mentioned by writers upon 

 the United States of America, that a purer and 

 more correct English is spoken in that country 

 than in the " old country," where it is corrupted 

 by so many diff'erent provincial dialects. The 

 remark respecting the United States of America 

 will equally apply to Australia ; for among 

 the native-born Australians, (descended from 

 European parents,) the English spoken is very 

 pure ; and it is easy to recognize a person 



