[2] See Dr. Ullathorne's Reply to Burton, especially at p. 5, where it appears that the judge was not quite impartial in one of his statements. Dr. Ullathorne himself has, in his 98 pages, contrived to crowd in at least twice as many misrepresentations as Burton's 321 pages contain. But that is no excuse. The Romish Church may need, or seem to need, such support. The cause defended by Judge Burton needs it not. #Contents.# INTRODUCTION. [Page 1.] Subject of the Work--Discovery and Situation of New Holland--Its Interior little known--Blue Mountains--Conjectures respecting the Interior--Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania. CHAPTER I. [Page 8.] The Bush described--Remains of it near Sydney--North-western Coast of New Holland--Sandy Columns and Fragments--Recollections of Home--Gouty Stem Tree--Green Ants--Fine Volcanic District--Cure for Cold--Travelling in the Rainy Season--Rich sequestered Valleys-- Plains near the Lachlan--Falls of the Apsley--Beauties of Nature enjoyed by Explorers--Aid afforded by Religion--Trials of Travellers in the Bush--Thirst--A Christian's Consolations--Plains of Kolaina, or Deceit--Bernier Island--Frederic Smith--A Commander's Cares--Dried Streams--Return from a Journey in the Bush--Outsettlers--Islands on the Australian Coast--Kangaroo Island--Coral Reefs and Islets. CHAPTER II. [Page 42.] Forbidding aspect of coast no argument against inland beauty and fertility--River Darling--The Murray--Other Rivers of New Holland-- Contrasts in Australia--The Lachlan, Regent's Lake, &c.--Sturt's Descent down the Murray--His Return--Woods--Difficulties and Dangers of Bush travelling--Wellington Valley--Australia Felix--Conclusion. CHAPTER III. [Page 72.] Comparative advantages of Europeans over Savages--Degraded condition of Natives of New Holland--Total absence of Clothing--Love of Ornaments--Peculiar Rites--Ceremony of knocking out a Tooth--Hardships of Savage Life--Revengeful Spirit--Effect of Native Songs in exciting Anger--Cruelty--Courage--Indifference to accounts of Civilized Life-- Contempt of its ways--Treatment of Women--Family Names, and Crests-- Language--Music. CHAPTER IV. [Page 97.] Means of Subsistence--A Whale Feast--Hunting the Kangaroo--Australian Cookery--Fish--Seal Catching--Turtles--Finding Opossums--Birds-- Pursuit of the Emu or Cassowary--Disgusting Food of the Natives-- Vegetables--_By-yu_ Nuts--Evils of European Settlements in cutting off the native supply of Food--Native Property in Land--Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land--A word of Advice to Christian Colonists. CHAPTER V. [Page 120.]