030 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(030.jpg) Verso in the bush it is as follows "Another ill [fated] [being] a runaway convict from a road gang was found near Belabala some sixty miles in the bush dead, apparently from the effect of cold and hunger, a termination of existence which it can hardly be doubted, is the lot of many of the misguided men who abandon themselves to misery and destruction by taking the bush" The fact is so well substantiated by many other similar circumstances, that it appears next to an absurdity to anyone acquainted with New South Wales how so many nursery tales of robbers and bushrangers should have crept into credit amongst the more enlightened at home. Tis true outrages have sometimes been committed but where have they not? Cap 4 Dr Johnson has somewhere very tersly observed that respect is paid in proportion to the demand - Nowhere perhaps is the dictum of our moral philosophers more fully exemplified than in the Society of a new country which is congregated from all parts of the world [consisting] of individuals entirely divested of the character and rank they held on the [slahe] they have left, and loving their individuality and standing in life to assume a new character in a new world - it is a proverbial saying in New South Wales that everything is turned upside down this side of the globe, we see here a devant democrats growing daily more and more aristocratic as their purses [hang] there - Merchants who are ignorant of their mother tongue assuming an awkward sensiblance of the well informed London Merchant - Then who have sprung from nothing priding themselves on their extraction and rogues [turned] honest men - upon compulsion- The Society of Sydney cannot easily be classified with the exception of the heads Datenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2666333198/

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SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustralia

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