I look back but to one bright spot, and
that is Waimate, with its Christian inhabitants.
(PLATE 88. HIPPAH, NEW ZEALAND.)
CHAPTER XIX.
(PLATE 89. SYDNEY, 1835.)
AUSTRALIA.
Sydney.
Excursion to Bathurst.
Aspect of the woods.
Party of natives.
Gradual extinction of the aborigines.
Infection generated by associated men in health.
Blue Mountains.
View of the grand gulf-like valleys.
Their origin and formation.
Bathurst, general civility of the lower orders.
State of society.
Van Diemen's Land.
Hobart Town.
Aborigines all banished.
Mount Wellington.
King George's Sound.
Cheerless aspect of the country.
Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of trees.
Party of natives.
Leave Australia.
JANUARY 12, 1836.
Early in the morning a light air carried us towards the entrance of
Port Jackson. Instead of beholding a verdant country, interspersed
with fine houses, a straight line of yellowish cliff brought to our
minds the coast of Patagonia. A solitary lighthouse, built of white
stone, alone told us that we were near a great and populous city.
Having entered the harbour, it appears fine and spacious, with
cliff-formed shores of horizontally stratified sandstone.
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