[Footnote 43: _Wordsworth's Sonnet to the Derwent._] [Footnote 44: Colonel Paterson had been distinguished by his researches in Africa, and had gained considerable reputation as a botanist. This spirit of enterprise and intelligence he always preserved: he directed the government botanical establishment at Parramatta, and the French delineated his attainments with more than their usual enthusiasm. He superintended the exotic plantation provided for the colonies, and the repository of native shrubs intended for the gardens at Kew. His name not unfrequently occurs as an adjunct to the scientific descriptions of the botanist. Formerly acting governor and commander of the military corps of New South Wales, he was not unsuitable for the more direct duties of his office. It is, however, as a naturalist that he is remembered. _He planted trees_: some are still growing amidst the desolation of York Town. He was the first who attempted to improve the grass of the country. He was the author of a volume of travels, published in 1789, entitled, _Narrative of Four Journies into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria, in the years_ 1777-8, _and_ 9.] [Footnote 45: _Sydney Gazette_, 1806.] [Footnote 46: Ibid, May, 1812.] [Footnote 47: Ibid, May, 1807.] [Footnote 48: Lieut. Lord's Evidence, Par. Pap., 1812.] [Footnote 49: Johnstone's Trial, p. 337.] [Footnote 50: _Sydney Gazette_, 1808.] [Footnote 51: "After numerous observations, we found it--Lat. 29 deg. 4' 40". Long. 161 deg. 12' East Greenwich."--_Hunter's Historical Journal._] [Footnote 52: _Backhouse's Journal._] [Footnote 53: Collins.] [Footnote 54: Holt gives the following curious anecdote:--"The Rev. Henry Fulton was reading the commandments, when Tony Chandler sung out--'turn out, you d----d villians, and launch the boat!' As I was going out, I said to Mr. Fulton, 'I perceive Tony Chandler's word has more power here than the word of God.' Fulton smiled, and shook his head."--_Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 232.] [Footnote 55: "At a distance, I saw about fifty men at work, as I thought dressed in nankeen jackets, but on nearer approach I found them naked, except trousers: they had each a kind of large hoe, about nine inches deep and eight wide, and the handle as thick as a shovel, with which they turned up the ground."-_Holt's Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 79.] [Footnote 56: The work is written with considerable strength of delineation; although his accounts are not quite safe authority for the character of his enemies. His words he spelled after a provincial pronunciation: thus, describing the crew of the _Sydney_, he writes, instead of Sepoys and Lascars, "Saypies and Glascars."]