AS THEY WERE THE FIRST SETTLERS, I Have Recommended
Them To His Excellency, As A Remuneration Of Their Losses, To Have Grants
Of Land On The North Side Of The Main River Tamar Extending Up The River
South Esk.
My motive for recommending this situation is that they cannot
fail in success as it is a part of the country the colony must look to
for grain.
The first twelve months being now past I have every reason to
believe the greatest of our difficulties have been surmounted...It is not
for me to presume to be acquainted with the particular causes which
rendered it necessary this colony should be established, but if its
desirable situation in the important passage of Bass Streights was one of
the objects, it appears to me necessary that a large establishment should
ever remain here while the interests of Great Britain are to be effected
in this part of the world, and I can assure your Lordship I have seen no
country yet that offers such inducements to be retained.*
I have, etc.,
W. PATERSON."
(* The remaining Norfolk Island Settlers were later on removed to
Tasmania in different ships, the Lady Nelson conveying many of them to
their new home. Historical Records of New South Wales volume 5 page 732.)
INDEX.
Abbott, Captain E.
Abercrombie, Charles.
Albany Otway, Cape.
Albatross Islands.
Albion, the.
Alligator, H.M.S.
Aluta.
Amsterdam, Island of.
Anderson, Ensign.
Anna, Josepha.
Ann's Island.
Ann's Mountain.
Anson, H.M.S.
Apsley Strait.
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