John Dunmore Lang

An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony 2 Volume Set

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1834, Lang's two-volume work advocates immigration and investment in his adopted country, Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 872
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9781108030779
• ISBN-10: 1108030777
• Artikelnr.: 34571167

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Introduction; 1. Progressive discovery of the coasts of New
Holland; 2. Establishment of a British colony at Port Jackson, under the
government of Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N.; 3. General state of the colony
during the administrations of Governors Hunter and King; 4. State of the
colony during the administration of Governor Bligh, with an account of the
origin and result of the Colonial Rebellion of 1808; 5. Account of the
state and progress of the colony during the government of Major-General
Macquarie; 6. Account of the state and progress of the colony under the
government of Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B.; 7. Account of the
state and progress of the colony during the government of
Lieutenant-General Darling; 8. View of the present state of the colony
under the government of Major-General Bourke; 9. View of the present state
of agriculture and of the agricultural interest in New South Wales;
Appendix. Volume 2: 1. On the distribution, employment, condition, and
character of the convict-population; 2. Journey over-land to Hunter's
River, with a description of an Australian farm; 3. Notices of the
settlements of Bathurst and Illawarra; 4. Statement of the advantages which
New South Wales holds forth to various classes of emigrants of moderate
capital, with introductory remarks on the geological features of the
colony, and on its climate and diseases; 5. Estimate of the state of morals
and religion in the colony, with a view of the existing religious
establishments and denominations in New South Wales; 6. View of the state
of education in the colony, with an account of the establishment of the
Australian college; 7. Emigration; considered chiefly in reference to the
practicability and expediency of importing and of settling, throughout the
territory of New South Wales, a numerous, industrious, and virtuous
agricultural population; being a lecture delivered in the temporary hall of
the Australian College, Sydney, 9th May, 1833.