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Article SOME ACCOUNT OF BOTANY BAY, ← Page 2 of 2 Article TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE . Page 1 of 2 →
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Some Account Of Botany Bay,
garden at Paramatta is so situated by nature , that , in my opinion , it is impossible for art to form so rural a scene . Five miles from Paramatta is another village ; at this place Government have a great deal of land in cultivation ; every * mile you travel inland the soil improves ; at fourteen miles from the village of Irongabber is another settlementcalled the Hawkesburyat which
, , place is a spacious fresh water river , and the soil rich ; and I have not a doubt but in a short time this place will be very flourishing . The farmers are now gathering their wheat ; it may appear to you extraordinary , but true it is , that the summers will produce two crops of vegetables . The quantity of timber surpasses all description , though the country has been so much cleared since I came ;
a great number of boats have been built , which supply us with plenty of fish , and the oysters are the largest I ever saw . About nine days sail from Sydney is Norfolk Island , a most fertile place , about the size of the Isle of Wight . The natives in general of Botany Bay are tali and slender , have very black , curly hair , flat faces ,, and very large mouths ; some of them run sticks through their noses
; they draw the front tooth in tribute to their chief ; are much scarified on the back and breast , done by an oyster-shell cemented with gum at the end of the whornmora ( or throwing-stick ); they talk very quick ; dance by raising their arms and wheeling in a circle , at sometimes singing or making a confused noise . One of the females sits thumping her stomachwhich ives a droll sound . They burn their
, g dead ; are very expert in throwing their spears , and with exactness , at a great distance ; their canoes are formed of solid bark , which they carve from the trees , by means of a stone axe ; they fight in a jmosfc savage manner ; their subsistence is chiefly on fish , the women being very expert at this duty ; their lines are curiously platted from the bark of treesand the hook is a iece of barkthey assemble in small
, p ; tribes , each having a different fire : the children when young ride on the parents shoulders , holding by the hair of the head ; after death they expect a removal to the sun , which they worshi p ; they are a very dirty and lazy set of people .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine .
TO THE .EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , AMONG the various societies that are established in this metropolis , there is one that has not yet been noticed by any of the public writers , though it is almost as numerous as that of the " Bucks , and full as ancient as the Free Masons ; it is indeed thought to have been instituted before the Roman empire , and it is honoured with a deity of the Greeks for its patron ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Some Account Of Botany Bay,
garden at Paramatta is so situated by nature , that , in my opinion , it is impossible for art to form so rural a scene . Five miles from Paramatta is another village ; at this place Government have a great deal of land in cultivation ; every * mile you travel inland the soil improves ; at fourteen miles from the village of Irongabber is another settlementcalled the Hawkesburyat which
, , place is a spacious fresh water river , and the soil rich ; and I have not a doubt but in a short time this place will be very flourishing . The farmers are now gathering their wheat ; it may appear to you extraordinary , but true it is , that the summers will produce two crops of vegetables . The quantity of timber surpasses all description , though the country has been so much cleared since I came ;
a great number of boats have been built , which supply us with plenty of fish , and the oysters are the largest I ever saw . About nine days sail from Sydney is Norfolk Island , a most fertile place , about the size of the Isle of Wight . The natives in general of Botany Bay are tali and slender , have very black , curly hair , flat faces ,, and very large mouths ; some of them run sticks through their noses
; they draw the front tooth in tribute to their chief ; are much scarified on the back and breast , done by an oyster-shell cemented with gum at the end of the whornmora ( or throwing-stick ); they talk very quick ; dance by raising their arms and wheeling in a circle , at sometimes singing or making a confused noise . One of the females sits thumping her stomachwhich ives a droll sound . They burn their
, g dead ; are very expert in throwing their spears , and with exactness , at a great distance ; their canoes are formed of solid bark , which they carve from the trees , by means of a stone axe ; they fight in a jmosfc savage manner ; their subsistence is chiefly on fish , the women being very expert at this duty ; their lines are curiously platted from the bark of treesand the hook is a iece of barkthey assemble in small
, p ; tribes , each having a different fire : the children when young ride on the parents shoulders , holding by the hair of the head ; after death they expect a removal to the sun , which they worshi p ; they are a very dirty and lazy set of people .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine .
TO THE .EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , AMONG the various societies that are established in this metropolis , there is one that has not yet been noticed by any of the public writers , though it is almost as numerous as that of the " Bucks , and full as ancient as the Free Masons ; it is indeed thought to have been instituted before the Roman empire , and it is honoured with a deity of the Greeks for its patron ,