CHAPTER VIII

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Arrival of Governor Hunter--His efforts for reformation--Advancement of the Colony towards supplying its own wants--Wild Cattle found--Coal discovered--Governor's regulations--Incendiarism--Natives troublesome--Difficulties in governing New South Wales--Crimes common--Laxity of public opinion--The gaols at Sydney and Paramatta purposely set on fire--Departure of Governor Hunter--Captain King succeeds him--Norfolk Island abandoned--Sketch of Norfolk Island--Settlement of Van Diemen's Land--Free Settlers--Philip Schoeffer--The Presbyterian Settlers at Portland Head--Resignation of Governor King--Captain Bligh his successor--Great Flood of the Hawkesbury--Unpopularity of the Governor--Seizure of his person--Rebellion--Usurpation--Arrival of a new Governor, Colonel Macquarie--Improvements in his time--Road-making--Passage across the Blue Mountains--Public Buildings--Patronage of Emancipists--Discoveries in the Interior, and Extension of the Colony--Continued neglect of the spiritual need of the Colonists--Governor Macquarie's Departure--His own statement of the progress of the Settlement under his administration.

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