We may add, by way of illustrating the regard paid to religious worship, even in Governor Macquarie’s time, that Oxley’s first expedition into the interior was permitted to set out from Bathurst on a Sunday! See his Journal, p. 3. Sunday, indeed, seems to have been a favourite starting-day with Mr. Oxley. See p. 37.
[129] See Governor Macquarie’s Report to Earl Bathurst, in Lang’s New South Wales, vol. i. Appendix, No. 8, p. 447.
[130] See Grey’s Travels in Western Australia, vol. ii. pp. 29, 30. For the particulars of Mr. Smith’s death, see [page 27].
[131] See Major Mitchell’s Three Expeditions, vol. ii. p. 317.
[132] See Lang’s New South Wales, vol. ii. p. 119.
[133] The difference of temperature in twelve hours’ journey is stated to be upwards of twenty degrees.—Oxley’s Journal of his First Expedition, p. 4.
[134] This account of the navigation of Hunter’s River is taken from Martin’s New South Wales, p. 75. Dr. Lang, vol. ii. p. 64, gives a somewhat different account of it.
[135] It was introduced in 1831.
[136] Bishop of Australia’s Letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, dated September 12th, 1839.
[137] See Wentworth’s Australasia, vol. i. pp. 52-55.