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"a Bill shall be submitted to Parliament in the course
"of the next Session to make provision for its Civil
"and Judicial Administration."
For convenience in the consideration of the subject, a skeleton Map of the World is annexed; and a Chart of the Swan and Canning Rivers, Cockburn Sound, and the adjacent coast and inland survey, upon a large scale, can be obtained from Mr. Cross, 18, Holborn.
By these it will be seen, that the proposed situation of Cockburn Sound, near the Swan and Canning Rivers, is one of peculiar advantage, placed without the tropics, in lat. 32 S.
The climate will be nearly of the same temperature as those parts of the Continent of Europe which are most agreeable, and productive of all articles of necessity; the best grain, seeds, horses, cattle, &c. as well as those of general European commerce, between 35 and 50 N. latitude; and it may be presumed such a situation will agree with the health and constitutions of persons accustomed to such latitudes.[1]
- ↑ It appears from Captain Stirling's Report on that Coast, the Thermometer in the hot months of January, February, and March, averaged in the Morning about 60°; at Noon about 78°; and in the Evening 65°. The Barometer averaged about 30° weather generally fine,—some rain and showery weather, and occasionally thunder and lightning.
