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THi: AUSTUALIAN COAST. 



CHAPTER nr. 



Sombre appearance of the Australian coast— Feelfsgs of m 



fiiiii^iant oil Eipin-oiitliini!: it— Improvement of Sydney — 

 Fruits jproduced iu the colony^ — -Extent of the town — CjB^- 



The streets — Parrots— Shops— ^itt|«]3icy of cantlnuing the 

 colony as a penal settlement— The theatre— Aspect of the 

 etrantry in the Tidnity of Sydney— The grass tr&e — ^Pfofftl 

 beauties — Larva of a curious insect— The colonial mu- 

 seum — Visit to Elizabeth Bay— Valuable botanical speci- 

 mens in the garden of the Honoufabte Alexander Macleay 

 •—•New Zeiilimd flax — Artitk^ nvaniifucturecl Crom that 

 vegetable— Leave Sydney— Kesidence of Mr, M'Artljur — 

 Forest flowers — ^Acacias — ^Paramatta^StWaJlows. 



As we sailed by tb^ AustiraJliaE mmi, its barreu 

 €i^ect neitlioi' clieeretl or invited the stT:uio-er's 

 eye ; even wlien' veovtation grew upon its sliitiv<, 

 it displayed so sombre an appearance as to im- 

 part no mhmMoxi ts> tibe scenery of tihe coast. 

 To m mngmasLt, em wlio has le^ the land of Ms 

 hthms, to rear his family and hty his htmes in a, 

 distant soil^ the first view of this, his adopted 



