Australia: Historical, Descriptive, and Statistic; With an Account of a Four Years' Residence in That Colony, Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &C (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Australia: Historical, Descriptive, and Statistic; With an Account of a Four Years' Residence in That Colony, Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &CWalter Savage Landor has said, that labour brutifies it may follow, if I have not laboured excessively, that the weight of the axe and the plough have possibly imparted a little of their heaviness to my pen. The holiday-writer, more of a locker-on than a worker, has here the advantage of me. I know it is not well to remain too long on the outskirts of civilisation, in the valleys and on the plains. That there is a purer atmosphere on the higher grounds in the bracing air more amplitude of intel ligence a more energetic character of healthfulness for body and mind. Nevertheless the age is an active one, is a worker, and may sympathise with 'me. Had I been more of an artificial being, more social than solitary, the reader had found in this book more of hostelries and coteries, but less of that out-oi-door companionship of nature which moulded my tastes at home, and has attended me abroad. In this there may most probably have been both loss and gain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.