ious.

Dr. Bass had, however, already examined this country with similar views,
especially the margin of the rivers. To him no spot on the eastern side
of the Derwent appeared to equal the neighbourhood of Risdon Creek,
around which he observed an expanding area of fertile land. He
delineated not less favorably the valley of the Tamar. This country he
considered preferable to New South Wales: with a greater proportion of
fertile soil, more amply supplied with water, and well adapted for
colonisation.[32]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 24: _Introduction._ p. 120.]

[Footnote 25: _Literary Chronicle_, 1822.]

[Footnote 26: The incidents of the voyage are related by Captain Tench.]

[Footnote 27: _Edinburgh Review_, 1803.]

[Footnote 28: _Quarterly Review_, 1814.]

[Footnote 29: On this medal an author, quoted in _Phillip's Voyages_,
ventured a poetical prophecy, which has at least the merit of
truthfulness:--

VISIT OF HOPE TO SYDNEY COVE.

_Written by the author of the Botanic Garden_, 1791.

Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,
Courts her young navies, and the storm repels;
High on a rock, amid the troubled air,
HOPE stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair.
"Hear me," she cried, "ye rising realms record
Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word:
There shall broad streets their stately walls extend,
The circus widen, and the crescent bend;
There, ray'd from cities o'er the cultur'd land,
Shall bright canals and solid roads expand.
Embellish'd villas crown the landscape scene,
Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between;
While with each breeze approaching vessels glide,
And northern treasures dance on every tide!"
Then ceas'd the nymph: tumultuous echoes roar,
And Joy's loud voice was heard from shore to shore.
Her graceful stops descending press'd the plain,
And Peace, and Art, and Labor, joined the train.

_--Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay._]

[Footnote 30: Vol. i. p. 12.]

[Footnote 31: _Quarterly Review._]

[Footnote 32: _Collins's New South Wales_, vol. i. p. 180.]

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

FROM 1803 TO 1824.

FROM 1803 TO 1824.

SECTION I.

The establishment of a settlement in Van Diemen's Land, perhaps thus
hastened by the jealousy of a rival power, was at first chiefly intended
to relieve Port Jackson. Fifteen years had elapsed since its foundation,
and from six to seven thousand prisoners had been transported thither:
dispersion became necessary to