# The Three Colonies of Australia

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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.
LONDON: INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO.
MDCCCLIII.
* 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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