The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Captain James Cook (1728-1779). THE GROWTH OP THE BRITISH DOMINIONS 5T1 adjacent Port Jackson, and within a few weeks the sitewhere Sydney now stands was a scene of busy life. The colony grew only slowly. Convicts are notf ft^mnt good colonists, and there was much disorder. But the land proved fairly fertile; coal wasdiscovered in 1797, and wool-growing, Australias greatindustry, began on a large scale in 1805. The natives, fewand feeble, gave little trouble, and while the mother coun-try was occupied with the long Napoleonic struggle her. Map
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Captain James Cook (1728-1779). THE GROWTH OP THE BRITISH DOMINIONS 5T1 adjacent Port Jackson, and within a few weeks the sitewhere Sydney now stands was a scene of busy life. The colony grew only slowly. Convicts are notf ft^mnt good colonists, and there was much disorder. But the land proved fairly fertile; coal wasdiscovered in 1797, and wool-growing, Australias greatindustry, began on a large scale in 1805. The natives, fewand feeble, gave little trouble, and while the mother coun-try was occupied with the long Napoleonic struggle her. Map of Australia. sons were building a new Nation in the Southern Sea. InTasmania colonization began in 1804, but Melbourne, thenucleus of the colony of Victoria, and now a city with halfa million inhabitants, was not founded until 1837; whileQueensland in the north, with Brisbane as its capital, hadnot an organized government until 1840. Tasmania, Vic- 572 THE BRITISH NATION toria, and Queensland were all daughters of Xew SouthWales, and long subject to the final authority of the gov-ernment at Sydney. But the extensive and not very at-tractive stretches of the western coast were not withinthe bounds of New South Wales, and only the fear thatthe Prench might establish a post on that coast causedpermanent settlement to begin there in 1826; the definitefounding of Western Australia came in 182U. The greatintervening and, in some places, very fertile area betweenWestern Australia and New South Wales and the othercolonies on the east coast was formed in 1834 into thehuge province of Sout
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