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ENTRANCE OF PORT LINCOLN. Taken from behind Memory Cove.

Painted by IV. Westall, A.R.A., F.L.S., for Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis.

THE

NEW BRITISH PROVINCE

OF

SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

OR

A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARTS AND VIEWS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE
PRINCIPLES, OBJECTS, PLAN, AND PROS-
PECTS OF THE COLONY.

[by Edward zibber

SECOND EDITION,

WITH A COPY OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ACT; AND THE REGULATIONS
MADE BY THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION FOR THE DISPOSAL
OF LANDS IN THE COLONY; FOR THE PRELIMINARY SALES OF
COLONIAL LANDS, IN THIS COUNTRY; AND FOR THE
EMIGRATION OF LABOURERS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. KNIGHT, 22, LUDGATE-STREET.

MDCCCXXXVIII,

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"A colony so founded would fairly represent English society, and every new comer would have his own class to fall into; and to whatever class he belonged, he would find his relation to the others, and the support derived from the others, much the same as in the parent country. There would then be little more in Van Diemen's Land, or in Canada, revolting to the habits and feelings of an emigrant, than if he had merely shifted his residence from Sussex to Cumberland or Devonshire-little more than a change of natural scenery.”—Archbishop Whately.

"Colonization, as hitherto conducted, may be likened to the building of a bridge; a work no part of which is complete until the whole be completed. According to the method here proposed, colonization would be like the making of a tunnel; a work in the progress of which each step must be complete before another step can be taken."-England and America.

London :

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

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