2.21. 
A VOYAGE TO 
CHAPTER Xm. 
Particular defer ipt'ion of Sydney Cove — Of the buildings aSiually 
eredied — and of the intended town — A fettlement made at the head 
of the harbour. 
c HA P. HERE are few things more pleafing than the con- 
templation of order and ufeful arrangement, arifing 
gradually out of tumult and confulion; and perhaps this 
fatisfa6tion cannot any where be more fully enjoyed than 
where a fettlement of civiUzed people is fixing itfelf 
upon a newly difcovered or favage coaft. The wild ap- 
pearance of land entirely untouched by cultivation, the 
clofe and perplexed growing of trees, interrupted now 
and then by barren fpots, bare rocks, or fpaces over- 
grown with weeds, flowers, flowering llirubs, or under- 
wood, fcattered and intermingled in the molt promifcu- 
ous manner, are the firfl objects that prefent them- 
felves ; afterwards, the irregular placing of the firft 
tents which are pitched, or huts which are eredted for 
immediate accommodation, vvherever chance prefents a 
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