Excerpt from Cooksland in North-Eastern Australia: The Future Cottonfield of Great, Its Characteristics and Capabilities for European Colonization, With a Disquisition on the Origin, Manners, and Customs of the AboriginesThe vast territory of New South Wales has evidently been designed by the Great Architect of the universe to tbrm three separate and independent Colonies or States, and it has accordingly been of late years re garded as comprising the three following Districts 1st, New South Wales Proper, or the Middle District, 2d, Port Phillip, or the Southern District, and 3d, Moreton Bay, or the Northern District - which we have taken the liberty, with the kind permission of the People of Great Britain and Ireland, to designate cooksland.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.