SENIOR MINISTER OF THE SCOTS CHURCH, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE "We have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good."-JUDGES Xviii. 9. SECOND EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BRINGING DOWN THE HISTORY OF THE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET: 1837. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Just published in small octavo, price 6s. 6d. bds. TRANSPORTATION AND COLONIZATION; OR, THE CAUSES OF THE COMPARATIVE FAILURE OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES: WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR ENSURING ITS FUTURE EFFICIENCY IN SUBSERVIENCY TO EXTENSIVE COLONIZATION. "The contents of this volume are worthy the attention of His Majesty's government, of the legislature, and the whole British public: indeed, although it contained no other statements and reasonings than those which bear upon the subject of secondary punishments, or no other suggestions than those which immediately concern the framers of criminal laws, Dr. Lang deserves the gratitude of his countrymen, whether at home or abroad."-Monthly Review. Storey 1-14-38 35393 EXTRACT FROM THE PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT OF THE FIRST EDITION. HAVING found it necessary to undertake a voyage from New South Wales to England in the month of July, 1833, on business connected with the Australian College, and with the Presbyterian Church in communion with the Church of Scotland, in that colony, and having accordingly obtained leave of absence for twelve months from His Excellency Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, the present Governor of New South Wales, it appeared to me that I could not employ the leisure of a long and dreary voyage more usefully for my adopted country, than in drawing up a series of sketches, for publication in England, illustrative of its past history and of its present condition. The following work was accordingly commenced immediately after we had lost sight of the Australian land; and the first seven chapters were written chiefly in the high latitudes of the Southern Pacific, before doubling |