A HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, FROM ITS SETTLEMENT ΤΟ THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1844. BY THOMAS HENRY BRAIM, ESQ. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE As in a cradled Hercules, we trace The lines of Empire in thine infant face. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. CAMPBELL. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. MDCCCXLVI. THE nature and object of the Work now issued to the world are sufficiently explained in the opening Chapter. The toils of an Author in Australia are not of that pleasing character, which suggested to the poet the expression "Labor ipse voluptas." While his fellow-citizens, the Great Republic of Letters at home, trim their lamps at leisure, and relax their bows, when Apollo ceases to be propitious, the Author in this hard-working country is compelled to pursue his task under the pressure of daily avocations; his lamp often expires while his labours are incomplete, and his bow is broken from too great severity of tension. have not been exempted from the general sentence. My professional calls are neither few, nor light; and such is the best apology I have to offer for imperfections, which the critical reader will not fail to detect. Let this candid confession bespeak his indulgence. I M310424 |