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VOYAGE 
TO r 
NEW SOUTH WALES, 
CHAPTER L 
PtibUc -dtiUty of 'voyages — Peculiar circumjlances of this — Ncu) HoU 
land properly a continent — Reafons for fixing our fettlement there 
— T^ranfportation to America^ its origin^ advantages^ and cef- 
fatio?i-T-Exp'eriments made — The prefent plan adopted — Difad- 
vafita^e-s'- ef other expedients, • ^ - 
ROM voyages undertaken exprefsly for the piirpoie chap 
of difcovery) the public naturally looks for infor- 
mation of various kinds ; and it is a fa6l which we 
cannot but contemplate with pleafure, that by the 
excellent publications fubfequent to fuch enterprizes, 
very confiderable additions have been made, during 
the prefent reign, to our general knowledge of the 
B globe, 
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