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IMPRESSIONS

OF AUSTRALIA FELIX.

"Here you have Port Phillip depicted by a hand on which you may thoroughly depend. My brother, from whose letters these are extracts, is a man well known in the literary world; and is, moreover, well known to a considerable circle as a man who is independent in mind and character, has no party feeling, and never joined himself to any political party, but at the same time would stand by the truth to the death."-Author of the Rural Life of England, in Tait's Magazine.

"A writer of true poetical feeling, and considerable poetical power."Blackwood's Magazine.

"He has a fine taste for Nature in all her simplicity; a keen perception of the beauties of the natural world. He writes affectionately, and unaffectedly. We recommend his book to the million of readers who study nature in books, if not in the fields. He is healthfully English in his compositions."-Athenæum.

"Full of genuine pictures of Nature, animate and inanimate." -Leigh Hunt.

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IMPRESSIONS

OF

AUSTRALIA FELIX,

DURING

FOUR YEARS' RESIDENCE IN THAT COLONY;

Potes of a Voyage Round the World;

AUSTRALIAN POEMS, &c.

BY RICHARD HOWITT.

"I don't know any pleasure equal to that of ranging at liberty, with no care upon
the mind, river, and wood, and coast, in new countries. We enjoyed ourselves up to
the very height of earthly delectation, you may be sure, especially after eighteen weeks'
sea-imprisonment. Then almost everything we heard or saw were new. The trees, the
shrubs, the flowers, the birds all new-and although there is in all situations something
to be endured as well as enjoyed, I would not willingly leave the past undone as it
regards these countries. There is something for the memory worth retaining."

AUSTRALIAN LETTER.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
1845.