Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay. With descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs, the geology, natural productions, fertility, and resources of that region; first explored and surveyed by order of the colonial government / By Clement Hodgkinson.

  • Hodgkinson, Clement.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay. With descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs, the geology, natural productions, fertility, and resources of that region; first explored and surveyed by order of the colonial government / By Clement Hodgkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Second Edition, carefully revised, in 2 vols. 8vo. THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEWLY EXPLORED REGION OF AUSTRALIA FELIX, AND OF THE PRESENT COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Bv MAJOR SIR T. L. MITCHELL, D.C.L., F.G.S., &c. Surveyor-General. CONTAINING A GENERAL MAP AND NINETY ILLUSTRATIONS (15 COLOURED) FROM THE AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. “ We have never read a work with more delight than the two volumes before us; they contain a mass of the most pleasing information of the greatest interest to all parties.”—Blackwood's Mag. “ A new country has thus been added to the map of Australia, and a survey of 500 miles, in its extreme breadth, has been effected of the regions in the immediate neigh- bourhood of New South Wales. Major Mitchell’s Journals are pregnant with interesting facts that possess the striking advantage of being* altogether new.”—Monthly Chron. u Of uncommon importance and value, while it is full of extraordinary interest, taking scenery, incidents, and man into account •, plates and plans clearly illustrate many passagesMonthly Review. “The rapidly increasing importance of our Australian Colonies renders these vo- lumes a valuable acquisition.”—Literary Gazette. u The best volumes that have yet appeared on the subject of the interior of Austra- lia.”—Athenaeum. u We have here a work worth hundreds of the volumes of those trading tourists who travel for the purpose of book-making. On his arrival in England, Major Mitchell received the assistance of several eminent scientific men in the classification of his natural history specimens : his book therefore has been rendered as complete as such a work could possibly be. Most of the engravings, and they are very numerous, are not orily interesting in subject, but both drawn and executed in a splendid and artist- like manner.”—United Service Gazette. a We have no hesitation in pronouncing these volumes of Major Mitchell’s on Australia, to be at once the most interesting that have yet appeared in connexion with this most important and interesting field for emigration ; nor can it be doubted that their publication will speedily lead to the most valuable results, no less in a political than a social point of viewT—Naval and Military Gazette. u Major Mitchell’s work on the survey of Interior Australia is the most important in reference to that country that has issued from the press.”—Morning Herald. u In novelty and variety of scenery, character, and incident, these volumes recall the idea of the older travellers. The subjects on which our author has thrown a new light are, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Geography, and Man. Altogether, the idea and conduct of the expeditions display the accomplished and practical surveyor.” Spectator.