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Footnote

[24] Introduction. p. 120.

[25] Literary Chronicle, 1822.

[26] The incidents of the voyage are related by Captain Tench.

[27] Edinburgh Review, 1803.

[28] Quarterly Review, 1814.

[29] On this medal an author, quoted in Phillip's Voyages, ventured a poetical prophecy, which has at least the merit of truthfulness:—

VISIT OF HOPE TO SYDNEY COVE.

Written by the author of the Botanic Garden, 1791.

Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,

Courts her young navies, and the storm repels;>

High on a rock, amid the troubled air,

Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair.

"Hear me," she cried, "ye rising realms record

Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word:

There shall broad streets their stately walls extend,>

The circus widen, and the crescent bend;

There, ray'd from cities o'er the cultur'd land,

Shall bright canals and solid roads expand.

Embellish'd villas crown the landscape scene,

Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between;

While with each breeze approaching vessels glide,

And northern treasures dance on every tide!"

Then ceas'd the nymph: tumultuous echoes roar,

And Joy's loud voice was heard from shore to shore.

Her graceful stops descending press'd the plain,

And Peace, and Art, and Labor, joined the train.

—Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay.

[30] Vol. i. p. 12.

[31] Quarterly Review.

[32] Collins's New South Wales, vol. i. p. 180.