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Charles Sturt Quotes
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. - Charles Sturt Quotes
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England. - Charles Sturt Quotes
I did not feel myself equal either to the task or the responsibility of venturing any remarks on the Colony of New South Wales itself. - Charles Sturt Quotes
I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting. - Charles Sturt Quotes
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. - Charles Sturt Quotes
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. - Charles Sturt Quotes
In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. - Charles Sturt Quotes
It is not, perhaps, generally known that a committee has been formed in Sydney, to advise settlers as to the best mode of proceeding on arrival there. - Charles Sturt Quotes
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. - Charles Sturt Quotes
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. - Charles Sturt Quotes
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. - Charles Sturt Quotes
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. - Charles Sturt Quotes
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The greatest disadvantage under which New South Wales labours, is the want of means for conveying inland produce to the market, or to the coast. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The most serious disadvantages under which the colony of New South Wales labours, is in the drought to which it is periodically subject. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. - Charles Sturt Quotes
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject. - Charles Sturt Quotes
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governors information. - Charles Sturt Quotes
We had been unable to persuade any of the natives of Wellington Valley to accompany us as guides, on our leaving that settlement. - Charles Sturt Quotes
We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm. - Charles Sturt Quotes
We left Oxleys Table Land on the morning of the 31st of January, pursuing a northern course through the brush and across a large plain, moving parallel to the smaller hill, and keeping it upon our left. - Charles Sturt Quotes
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. - Charles Sturt Quotes
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. - Charles Sturt Quotes
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