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province of Banks's studies, the country which he had 

 made his own was the country which, when he was leaving 



SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART., P.C., K.B., F.R.S. 

 (From a painting by Thomas Phillips in the National Portrait Gallery.) 



it, he had described as in every respect the barrenest 

 country he had ever seen. It was mainly his recommenda- 

 tion that had caused the Government to found the colonv 



