Excerpt from An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, Vol. 1 of 2: Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British ColonyIt is allowed on all hands that there is much in the present state of the Australian colonies to counteract the general tendency and efficiency of the Transportation system. In order, therefore, to show how such a state of things has been arrived at, I found it absolutely necessary, in projecting the present work, to take a retrospective view of the state and progress of the co lony from its original settlement to the present time. This retrospect, which I am confident has been taken with candour and impartiality, I have reason to believe will sufficiently explain whatever might otherwise have appeared anomalous in the present aspect and con dition of the Australian colonies.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.