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to express my obligations to Mr. D. R. Hawley, Assistant Librarian of the Free Public Library, for his cordial assistance in the examination of authorities, which has been greatly facilitated by his extensive knowledge of books; to Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician, for the statistical returns compiled by him on the subject of transportation; to Mr. F. M. Bladen, of the Government Printing Office; and also to Mr. Charles Potter, the Government Printer, whose proposal for a new edition of the Official History of New South Wales (1883), in commemoration of the Centennial Year, led to the present work.

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