out of Melbourne, whether
north, east, or west, all he sees or hears is merely a
repetition of this colonial note--`I squat, thou squattest, he
squats; we squat, ye or you squat, they squat.'. . .
<i>Exeunt omnes</i>. `They are all gone out a-squatting.'"

1846. T. H. Braim, `History of New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 236:

"The regulations . . . put an end to squatting within the
boundaries of location, and reduced it to a system without
the boundaries."

1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 136:

"The Speaker squats equally and alternately on the woolsack of
the House and at his wool-stations on the Murrumbidgee. One
may squat on a large or small scale, squat directly or
indirectly, squat in person or by proxy."

1854. W. Golder, `Pigeons' Parliament,' p. 68:

"Some spot,
Found here and there, where cotters squat
With self-permission."

1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 119:

"Squatting, in its first phase, was confined to the region
round about Sydney; it was not until the pass through the Blue
Mountains was discovered that the flocks and herds of the
colonists began to expand."

<hw>Squattage</hw>, <i>n</i>. a squatter's station.
The word can hardly be said to have prevailed.

1864. W. Westgarth, `Colony of Victoria,' p. 272:

"The great Riverine district, which is one vast series of
squattages . . . the toil and solitude of a day's journey
between the homesteads of adjacent squattages."

<hw>Squatter</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) One who squats; that is,
settles on land without a title or licence. This is an
English use.

1835. T. A. Murray (Evidence before Legislative Council of
New South Wales on Police and Gaols):

"There are several parties of squatters in my neighbourhood.
I detected, not long since, three men at one of their stations
in the act of slaughtering one of my own cattle. I have strong
reason to suspect that these people are, in general, illicit
sellers of spirits."

1835. W. H. Dutton (Evidence before same Committee):

"These persons (squatters) are almost invariably the
instigators and promoters of crime, receivers of stolen
property, illegal vendors of spirits, and harbourers of
runaways, bushrangers, and vagrants."

1843. Rev. W. Pridden, `Australia Its History and Present
Condition,' pp. 332-3:

"The <i>squatters</i>, as they are called, are men who occupy
with their cattle, or their habitations, those spots on