Australia, its history and present condition - containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, - with their respective inhabitants

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Australia, its history and present condition, by William Pridden This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants Author: William Pridden Release Date: December 5, 2009 [EBook #30607] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUSTRALIA--HISTORY, CONDITION *** Produced by Nick Wall, Anne Storer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber’s Notes: 1) Morrumbidgee/Murrumbidgee each used on several occasions and left as in the original. ‘Morrumbidgee’ is the aboriginal name for the Murrumbidgee. 2) Used on numerous occasions, civilisation/civilization; civilised/civilized; civilising/civilizing; uncivilised/uncivilized—left as in the original. 3) Same with variations of colonisation/colonization, and a few other “z” words that should be “s” words in their English form. The XXVI.