Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter X. state and progress of the colony during the government op sir george gipps. Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer.--Hor. If the Governors of New South Wales, from and after the period of Governor Macquarie, are in comparison with their predecessors of the Primitive and Secondary formations, to be considered as the Transition Series of that colony, the first two of this series--viz. Sir Thomas Brisbane and Sir Ralph Darling--may be referred to the Eocene period in which the number of free emigrants, as compared with the convict and emancipated convict classes of the colony, was comparatively small; rari nantcs in gurgite vaato. To continue the metaphor, the period of Sir Richard Bourke's government may be regarded as the Miocene period, during which the proportion of free emigrants, although they had not yet obtained the preponderance, had greatly increased; but the government of Sir George Gipps, with that of his successors, Sir Charles Fitzroy and Sir William Denison, may be regarded as the Pliocene period, during which the free emigrant and native born colonists vastly outnumbered the other classes, and in which all the more prominent traces of the convict origin of the colony disappeared. The ninth Governor of New South Wales was Sir George Gipps, who entered upon his office on the 24th of February, 1838; the government having been administered during the interregnum that ensued on the departure of Sir Richard Bourke on the 5th of December, 1837, by Colonel Snodgrass--a son of the late Rev. Dr. Snodgrass, one of the ministers of Paisley, and the hero of St. Sebastian, in Spain--as Lieutenant-G
