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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fern Vale (Volume 1), by Colin Munro 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: Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Author: Colin Munro Release Date: November 6, 2008 [EBook #27169] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FERN VALE (VOLUME 1) *** Produced by Nick Wall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Transcribers Note: Unexpected spelling, punctuation, and inconsistent hyphenation have been retained as they appeared in the original, except as listed at the end of the book. On Page 321 the gobbledegook "while the use nht psoe hwi cfirt h tth em" has also been retained as it appears in the original. FERN VALE OR THE QUEENSLAND SQUATTER. A NOVEL. BY COLIN MUNRO. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL I. LONDON: T. C. NEWBY, 30 WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. MDCCCLXIL EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY THE CALEDONIAN PRESS, "The National Institution for Promoting the Employment of Women in the Art of Printing." PREFACE. Some fifteen years ago, when the first mention was made in the Imperial Parliament of the intention of Her Majesty to dismember the Northern districts of New South Wales, for the purpose of establishing a refuge for the expatriated felons of Great Britain, a certain noble lord rose to enquire where New South Wales was, and whether it was anywhere in the vicinity of Botany Bay. Since the time of this sapient patrician much has been said, and more has been written, respecting our antipodean empire; though I believe the mass of the English people are still as unacquainted with the characteristics of the colony, and the manners of colonial life, as if the vast continent of Australia remained in its primitive inanition. Poor as is the knowledge of our friends "at home" respecting their periecian brethren, I grieve to say, with regard to, or rather of, the Australian colonists, that knowledge is too frequently tinged with prejudice and err
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