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of materials out of the immense
and ever-increasing body of facts has
become almost wearisome.

I think of confining myself to the
main questions which agitated the
minds of colonists or were dealt
with by the Colonial Office.

Up to 1840 the history of N S Wales
is almost the history of Australia;
after that date the fortunes of New
Zealand, South Australia and
Port Phillip demand separate notice,
and condensation is requisite.

In the earlier times I have been
more diffuse and have embodied
many of the ips iprima verba of
Governors, of your father, of Marsden
&c. Specific details of the first stages
of growth are always interesting, I think,
and they help to make the picture
life like.