PREFACE. 



^HE Author of the Hiftory of the Englifh Colony 

 in New South Wales, having been flattered by 

 the idea that a Second Edition of that work would not 

 prove unacceptable to the Public, and feeling it incum- 

 bent on him to fhew the grateful fenfe which he enter- 

 tained of the favourable reception of the firft, had for 

 fome time deliberated on the propriety of giving the new 

 Edition in a form which, without leffening the intereft 

 of the work, might render it lefs expenfive to the pur- 

 chafer. A careful Abridgment appeared moft likely to 

 anfwer the end defired ; as much of the matter con- 

 tained in the firft publication was now no longer of im- 

 portance; though at that period curiofity was awake to 

 the moft trivial circumftance occurring in a new world, 

 where the aftions of two diftinft fets of people were to 

 appear in contraft ; the one, the children of rude uncul- 

 tivated nature, juft entering upon the ftage; the other, 

 the difciples of vice in its moft refined ftate, driven from 

 more polifhed fcenes. 



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