Simmonds's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volume 11Simmonds and Ward, 1847 - Great Britain |
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Page 9 - I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient, humble servant, TL MITCHELL, Surveyor-General. To his Excellency the Governor of New South Wales. Camp on the River Balon ne, in long. 148° 46' 45
Page 176 - ... it, they found only gold, iron, and other metals, of which they did not know the use. The white men opened the paper, and it told them every thing.
Page 351 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation, once in forwardness : for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
Page 436 - After enjoying, for a short time, the unusual luxury of air, some water was brought ; it was then that the extent of their sufferings was exposed in a fearful manner. They all rushed like maniacs towards it. No entreaties, or threats, or blows could restrain them ; they shrieked and struggled, and fought with one another, for a drop of this precious liquid, as if they grew rabid at the sight of it.
Page 140 - The amount of sugar manufactured in a year varies from different causes. A cold and dry winter renders the trees more productive than a changeable and humid season. It is observed that when a frosty night is followed by a dry and brilliant day the sap flows abundantly ; and two or three gallons are sometimes yielded by a single tree in twenty-four hours. Three persons are found sufficient to tend two hundred and fifty trees, which give one thousand pounds...
Page 446 - ... to him, at certain periods, should be open to all. True, subordination is absolutely necessary to domestic happiness : a general principle of deference from the inferior to the superior, analogous to that among children from the younger to the elder, must exist ; but to the superior servant say, " So live with your inferior, as you would wish your superior to live with you.
Page 339 - The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Page 137 - It is impossible to exaggerate the autumnal beauty of these forests : nothing under heaven can be compared to its effulgent grandeur. Two or three frosty nights in the decline of autumn transform the boundless verdure of a whole empire into every possible tint of brilliant scarlet, rich violet, every shade of blue and brown, vivid crimson, and glittering yellow. The stern, inexorable fir tribes alone maintain their eternal sombre green. All others, in mountains or in valleys, burst into the most...
Page 150 - ... in the royal forests, in consequence of which, they became so numerous, that there was no longer room for the underwood to grow ; when, as usual, going to the other extreme, most of them were cut down. This measure, it was remarked, was a great calamity to the poor, who, during several months of the year, lived, either directly or indirectly, on the produce of the merisier. Soup, made of the dried fruit, with a little bread and butter, was the common nourishment of the wood-cutters and charcoal-burners...
Page 411 - In the south it is often called the Juniper. The White Cedar furnishes excellent shingles, much more durable than those made of either Pine or Cypress ; in Philadelphia the wood is much esteemed and greatly used in cooperage.