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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 
a mass of notes made by the Author during a residence 
of more than thirty years in those parts, and he trusts 
it will prove a means of directing the public mind to 
the importance of Britain’s Australasian Provinces, and 
aid in cementing more closely the union between the 
parent and her offspring, so that the day may be far 
distant when the several parts of the present Grand 
Empire shall be severed asunder, but each section 
continue to view the others as portions of the same, 
and mutually necessary to the stability and welfare 
of the whole. 
Castle Cottage, Porchester, 
January ls£, 1870. 
