I allude not to the period of great martial achievements, should any such adorn its pages, but to that in which the enterprise of its merchants was roused into action, and when all classes of its community seem to have put forth their strength towards the attainment of wealth and power.
ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS.
In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

The conduct of its merchants is marked by the boldest speculations and the most gigantic projects.

Their storehouses are built on the most magnificent scale, and with the best and most substantial materials.

Few persons in England have even a remote idea of its present flourishing condition, or of the improvements that are daily taking place both in its commerce and in its agriculture.

I am aware that many object to it as a place of residence, and I can easily enter into their feelings from the recollection of what my own were before I visited it.