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An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales - Volume II

by George Bass

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1802
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An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1, is a foundational early Australian historical text describing the first decades of British settlement at Sydney from 1788 onward. The book belongs to the body of late Georgian colonial reportage by the early settlers and explorers of New South Wales. George Bass (1771-1803) was the Royal Navy surgeon and explorer whose name survives in Bass Strait, the body of water between mainland Australia and Tasmania that he established as a separate sea in 1798 in the small whaleboat Tom Thumb and the sloop Norfolk with Matthew Flinders. The volume records the early colony, its government, the New South Wales Corps, the early settler economy, and the relations with the Eora and other Aboriginal peoples of the Sydney region. It is a primary source for Australian colonial history.

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George Bass

George Bass was a naval surgeon, sailor, and naturalist whose voyages helped establish the geography of Australia's southern coastline. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales – Volume II is principally associated with David Collins, but its account of the voyage by Bass and Matthew Flinders draws on Bass's journal.

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First published
1802
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
286
Language
English
Genre
History
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