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Excerpt from Poems: Sacred and Secular: Written Chiefly at Sea, Within the Last Half-Century
Poem in Ottava Rima, entitled A Voyage to New South Wales, written during the Author's first voy age to Australia, in the years 1822 and 1823. It was originally intended to have been published anony mously, with certain additions to give it a more com plete form, under the title of A Voyage to New South Wales, a Poem: or Extracts from the Diary of an Officer in the East. But as this idea was never carried out, the manuscript has lain untouched in the Author's desk these fifty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
