The Three Colonies of Australia

by Samuel Sidney

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THE

THREE COLONIES

OF

AUSTRALIA:

NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA,

SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

THEIR PASTURES, COPPER MINES, & GOLD FIELDS,

BY

SAMUEL SIDNEY,

AUTHOR OF "THE AUSTRALIAN HAND BOOK", ETC.

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.

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Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface
• PART I
  • Chapter I Australia from 1520 to 1770
  • Chapter II Origin of transportation
  • Chapter III Governor Phillip to Governor King
  • Chapter V The discoveries of Flinders and Bass
  • Chapter VI Governor Bligh (1806 to 1809)
  • Chapter VI Governor MacQuarie (1809 to 1821)
  • Chapter VII Governor Brisbane and Governor Darling (1821 to 1831)
  • Chapter VIII Governor Bourke (1831 to 1838)
  • Chapter IX Origins of the Wakefield System
  • Chapter X Convict Labour
  • Chapter XI Sir George Gipps (1838 to 1846)
  • Chapter XII Emigration
  • Chapter XIII Caroline Chisholm
  • Chapter XIV Responsible Government
  • Chapter XV Songs of the Squatters
  • Chapter XVI Sir Charles Fitzroy (1846 to 1850)
  • Chapter XVII Correspondence with parliamentary agent
  • Chapter XVIII Victoria, or Port Phillip (1835 to 1850)
  • Chapter XIX South Australia (1835 to 1851)
  • Chapter XX Colonel Gawler's Government (1838 to 1841)
  • Chapter XXI Governor Grey (1841 to 1844)
• PART II
  • Chapter XXII A glance at the extent, form, soil, climate, rivers, and productions of Australia
  • Chapter XXIII A geographical sketch and tabular view of Eastern Australia
  • Chapter XXIV Journey from Port Jackson to Port Phillip
  • Chapter XXV South Australia
  • Chapter XXVI Mines of South Australia
  • Chapter XXVII Religion, education, law
  • Chapter XXVIII Statistics of New South Wales
  • Chapter XXIX
  • Chapter XXX Gold fields of Victoria
  • Chapter XXXI The diaries of Diggers
  • Chapter XXVII Conclusion
• Appendix
• Index

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

	Page
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Grey-headed Vampire	19
Monument to La Perouse	26
Newcastle. From a Sketch by J. A. Jackson, Esq.	37
Portrait of Captain Flinders	44
Merino Ram	54
Native Dog, or Dingoe	63
Bathurst Plains in 1852	66
Duck-billed Platypus, or Paradox	69
City of Sydney	111
Portrait of Mrs. Chisholm	134
Bushing it	150
A Wool Store at Melbourne	199
The Antipodes Islands. From a Sketch by J. A. Jackson, Esq.	199
Gum Trees near Melbourne	202
Bunynong Hill, near Ballarat	207
Adelaide, from the Hills	214
Branding Cattle at Illawara. From a Sketch, by Arthur Westmacott, Esq.	249
Bronze-winged Pigeon	270
Portrait of Dr. Leichardt	271
Blacks under Gunyah	274
Gold-washing at Ballarat	280
Lyre Bird	282
Megapodius, or Mound-building Bird	291
Cascade at Greenhill Creek, South Adelaide	292
Banded Myrmicobius, or Ant-eater	293
Portrait of Edward Hargreaves	324
Gold Diggings at Ophir	326
Issuing Licences	329
Mr. Hardy, the First Government Commissioner	331
Dodging the Commissioner	333
A Nugget of Gold	336
Gold Washing	343
Straw-necked Ibis	348
Gold Escort	350
Laughing Jackass	352
Children Cradling	354
The Post Office, Sofala, Turon River	357
A Shepherd's Hut	366
Grass Trees	370
Opossum	374
Gold Diggers at Dinner	377
The Emu	380
Removing Goods	389
Gold-seekers' Graves on the Turon	392

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