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ing of a colony in New England, tlie Directors simply resolved to 

 transfer themselves and their charter bodily to New England, and 

 the noblest colony or rather series of colonies that were ever 

 planted by man was the result. But the principles of coloniza- 

 tion, as Mr. Merivale, one of the highest authorities on the 

 subject, fully admits, were much better understood and much 

 better carried out in the 17th century than in the 19th — under 

 the Stuarts than under Queen Victoria. May we hope, however, 

 that a better state of things in this important respect shall 

 speedily be realized, and that such principles will be recognized 

 and established, with the concurrence of the Imperial Government, 

 as will make this city of Sydney, like the ancient city of Miletus 

 in the flourishing period of Grecian colonization, the mother city 

 of a whole series of flourishing colonies in New Guinea and in 

 the numerous and beautiful islands of the Western Pacific. 



