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404- '# HISTORY OF 



CONCLUSION. 



Having continued the History of New South 

 Wales, to the year 1802, and as an opportunity 

 will offer of sending the Manuscript to Eng- 

 land in a few days ; I shall close my labours by 

 one general view of the country, from the 

 foundation of the settlement, to the present 

 time. 



On a rational view of the country itself, at 

 the period of effecting the first landing by Go- 

 vernor Phillip, in 1 788. What was the country ? 

 but one thick wood : this, by the never ceasing 

 exertions of those officers in the expedition, gra- 

 dually vanished ; the country opened ; agricul- 

 ture commenced : the effects of their care was 

 repaid by the satisfaction of knowing they per^ 

 formed, to the best of their abilities, which were 

 indeed great, the object for which they were 

 sent: and how highly are they entitled to pub- 

 lic gratitude, for rendering those parts which 

 were formerly only large wooois, convenient 

 ports for the refreshment of ships ; for the sales 

 of cargoes ; grateful fields for industrious far- 

 mers, and evidently in some cases, an effectual 

 school of reform for characters previously ba~ 

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