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should be remembered , that the trees of Van Diemen ' s Land do not cover the ground as in England . In number they did not average more than about ten to an acre . There were many open plains hereabout , of several square miles , without a single tree . The plains or hills to the north of the Peak , being the first open
country Mr . Hellyer entered upon in this journey , he has named the Hampshire Hills . They appear even more park-like than the Surrey Hills , and are handsomely clumped with trees * The course of the party from the peak had now carried them nearly twenty miles ; and as far as they were able to see , there arose on all sides grassy hills without number , which it was delightful to look round upon from one higher than the rest . '—pp . 117-20 .
Government must of course be sensible of the advantages communicated to the island by the location of the Company , and we hope private settlers are so too . If there were such a blessing in store for Ireland as the settlement of a wealthy company in one corner , diffusing the streams of its capital and civilization through its very centre , how all Great Britain would applaud I Van Diem en ' * Land and Ireland are about the same size , and their natural
resources might perhaps have been upon a par . If they could now equally divide their aggregate population , they might soon be the two finest countries in the world , instead of being likely to take their antagonist stations as example and warning of how the bounties of God and nature may be improved or abused . Go * vernment fixed the location of the Company at the north-west corner of the island , which had never been explored , and thereby
saved the expense of surveying it , and secured the advantage of an immense tract for private settlers lying between the possessions of the Company and its own . Roads have been opened to communicate with the formerly inhabited districts ; the pastures have been stocked with animals of the purest breeds , from which the animal produce of the whole island derives great improvement ;
and , better still , the servants of the Company , all , by selection , respectable in their stations and intelligent , have done and will do much for the morals and temporal interests of their neighbours . It is very fair that the honours peculiar to newly-discovered lands should be paid to those who have rendered such benefits as these to Van Diemen ' s Land . —We observe a
Mount Bischoff in the map , besides other names which equally deserve this appropriate species of immortality . Why has no plan of naming new districts ever been adopted ? Till there is , the civilized world will not be released from the torture inflicted by the jumbling together of uncongenial associations . Explorers begin by adopting the cardinal points : which is all very well . West Point , South Shore , &c , sound very proper . Quite as good are such terms as denote the character of the object specified , as Table Promontory , Cape Grim , Calm Bay , &c . Next come , and generally unobjectionably ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/19/
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