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 OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 585 Shaw: — Zoology of New Holland. London, 1794. Bibllo- Dr. George Shaw (1751-1813), the author of this work, was a graphy. popular lecturer in London on natural history, and assistant keeper of natural history in the British Museum. In his work on the Zoology of New Holland, he makes use of the name Australia on several occasions. Watling : — Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay to his Aunt in Dumfries ; giving a particular account of the Settlement of New South Wales, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. By Thomas Watling. 12mo., pp. iv, 128. Penrith, printed by Ann Bell [1794]. The writer, who styles himself " Principal Limner in New South m Wales," was extremely anxious to deserve better of his country, and proposed, with due deference under the patronage of an Im- partial Public, the execution of a Picturesque Description of that Colony in a highly finished Set of Drawings, done faithfully upon the Spots, in Mezzo, Aquatinta, or Water Colours. Thompson: — Slavery and Famine, Punishments for Sedition; or, An Account of the Miseries and Starvation at Botany Bay, from the Journal of George Thompson, who sailed in the Royal Admiral, May, 1792. With some Preliminary Remarks by George Dyer, B.A. 8vo., pp. viii, 48 and 23. London, 1794. Second edition : — Slavery and Famine, Punishments for Sedition ; or, An Account, of New South Wales, and of the Miserable State of the Convicts. By George Thompson. Including a Sketch of the Character of Thomas Fysche Palmer. 8vo., pp. viii, 48, 23. London, 1794. Parker : — A voyage [to Sydney and] Round the World in the Gorgon man-of-war. Captain John Parker, performed and written by his widow, for the advantage of a numerous family. 8vo., pp. xxxii, 149. London, 1795. The Gorgon carried Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island, and Mrs. King, Mr. Grimes, and others,. to the new settlement at Port Jackson in 1791. Barrington: — A Voyage to New South Wales, with a Descrip- tion of the Country, the Manners, Customs, Religion, &c., of the Natives in the vicinity of Botany Bay. By George Barrington, now superintendent of the convicts at Parramatta. 8vo. Title and dedication, dated Parramatta, 1793. 4pp. and pp. 13-140. London, 1795. Second and third editions. London, 1796. Another edition, Roy. 8vo., pp. 32. London [Preston], 1795. Another edition (a few paragraphs omitted at the end). Cr. 8vo., pp. 48. Manchester [1795]. Digitized by Google