A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
by Watkin Tench
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About this eBook
- Author
- Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833
- Credits
- Produced by Col Choat and Stuart Kidd
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 3534
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3534
- Release Date
- May 8, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson — by
- 2.Watkin Tench — Table of Contents — PREFACE — A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson — PREFACE — CHAPTER I. — A Retrospect of the State of the Colony of Port Jackson, on the Date of my former Narrative, in July, 1788. — CHAPTER II. — Transactions of the Colony from the sailing of the First Fleet in July, 1788, to the Close of that Year. — CHAPTER III. — Transactions of the Colony, from the Commencement of the Year 1789, until the End of March. — CHAPTER IV. — Transactions of the Colony in April and May, 1789. — CHAPTER V. — Transactions of the Colony until the Close of the Year 1789. — CHAPTER VI. — Transactions of the Colony, from the Beginning of the Year 1790 until the End of May following. — CHAPTER VII — Transactions of the Colony in June, July, and August, 1790. — CHAPTER VIII. — Transactions of the Colony in the Beginning of September, 1790. — CHAPTER IX. — Transactions of the Colony in part of September and October, 1790. — CHAPTER X. — The arrival of the 'Supply' from Batavia; the State of the Colony in November, 1790. — CHAPTER XI. — Farther Transactions of the Colony in November, 1790. — CHAPTER XII. — Transactions of the Colony in Part of December, 1790. — CHAPTER XIII. — The Transactions of the Colony continued to the End of May, 1791. — CHAPTER XIV. — Travelling Diaries in New South Wales. — CHAPTER XV. — Transactions of the Colony to the end of November, 1791. — CHAPTER XVI — Transactions of the colony until 18th of December 1791, when I quitted it, with an Account of its state at that time. — CHAPTER XVII. — Miscellaneous Remarks on the country. On its vegetable productions. On its climate. On its animal productions. On its natives, etc. — CHAPTER XVIII. — Observations on the Convicts. — CHAPTER XIX. — Facts relating to the probability of establishing a whale fishery on the coast of New South Wales, with Thoughts on the same. — — THE END
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