...the 20th of January, 1788), a voyage which, before it was undertaken, the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination. In the course of that time they had sailed fifteen thousand and sixty-three...

...the 20th of January, 1788), a voyage, which before it was undertaken, the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehensions as to its termination. In the course of that time they had sailed fifteen thousand and...

...unknown ; the emigrant of the present day on arriving at Sydney is at once introduced to a flourishing city, inhabited by a civilized people, in a country...to the scene that was then presented to their view : — " AU is as still as death ! wild solitude Eeigns undisturb'd along the voiceless shore, And every...

...concerning which Captain Collins says, that before it was entered upon " the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination." That the whole of the fleet should cross so large an expanse of comparatively...

...Collins, of the Marines, JudgeAdvocate and historian of the expedition, thus sums up the case : — " Thus, under the blessing of God, was happily completed...was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination. This fortunate completion of it, however, afforded, even to ourselves, as much...

...in eight months and one week, a voyage which before it was undertaken the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehensions as to its termination. . . . We had sailed five thousand and twenty-one leagues . . ....