ed, as the reader will conclude from the tenour of the above passage; for, although at the termination of the Murray, we came upon a country, the aspect Menn Sergio Ramos Fotballdrakter of which indicated more than usual richness and fertility, we were unable, from exhausted strength, to examine it as we could have wished, and thus the fruits of our labours appeared to have been taken from us, just as we were about to gather them. But if, amidst difficulties and disappointments of no common description, I was led to doubt the wisdom of Providence, I was wrong. The course of events has abundantly shewn how presumptuous it is in man to question the arrangements of that Allwise Power whose operations and purposes are equally hidden from us, for in six short years from the time when I crossed the Lake Victoria, and landed on its shores, that country formed another link in the chain of settlements round the Australian continent, and in its occupation was found to realize the most sanguine expectations I had formed of it. Its Menn Karim Benzema Fotballdrakter rich and lovely valleys, Menn Jan-Pascal Reckert Fotballdrakter which in a state of nature were seldom trodden by the foot of the savage, became the happy retreats of an industrious peasantry; its plains were studded over Menn Hendrik Bonmann Fotballdrakter with cottages and corn-fields; the very river which had appeared to me to have been so misplaced, was made the high road to connect the eastern and southern shores of a mighty continent; the Menn Eden Hazard Fotballdrakter superfluous stock of an old colony was poured down its banks into the new settlement to save it from the trials and vicissitudes to which colonies, less favourably Menn Eliaquim Mangala Fotballdrakter situated, have been exposed; and England, throughout her wide domains, possessed not, for its extent, a fairer or a more promising dependency than Menn Karl Ouimette Fotballdrakter the province of South Australia. Such, there can be no doubt, have been the results of an expedition from which human foresight could have anticipated no practical good.
During my progress down the Murray River I had passed the junction of a very considerable stream with it3, in lat. 34 degrees 8 minutes and long. 142 degrees. Circumstances, however, pre |
