ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



ENGLISH COLONY 



IN 



NEW SOUTH WALES, 



FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN JANUARY 1788, TO 



august 1801 : 



WITH 



REMARKS ON THE DISPOSITIONS, CUSTOMS, MANNERS, &c. OF 

 THE NATIVE INHABITANTS OF THAT COUNTRY. 



TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 



SOME PARTICULARS OF NEW ZEALAND; 



COMPILED, BY PERMISSION, 



FROM THE MSS. OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR KING: 



AND 



AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN FLINDERS AND 

 MR. BASS; BY WHICH THE EXISTENCE OF A STRAIT SEPARATING 

 VAN DIEMEN'S LAND FROM THE CONTINENT OF NEW HOLLAND WAS 

 ASCERTAINED. 



ABSTRACTED FROM THE JOURNAL OF MR. BASS. 



By Lieutenant-Colonel COLLINS, of the Royal Marines ; 



SEVERAL YEARS JUDGE- ADVOCATE AND SECRETARY OF THE COLONY, 

 AND NOW LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF PORT PHILIP. 



ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 



THE SECOND EDITION. 



" Many might be faved, who now fuffer an ignominious and an early death ; and many might be 

 •« fo much puriSed in the furnace of punifhment and advetfity, as to become the ornaments 

 « of that fociety of which they had formerly been the bane. The vices of mankind muft 

 " frequently require the feverity of jufticej but a wife State will direct that feventy to the 

 41 gveateft moral and political good." anon. 



LONDON: 



Punted by A. Strahan, Printers Street, 

 FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. 



1804. 



