A NOVEL.
BY COLIN MUNRO.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL I.
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Some fifteen years ago, when the firstmention was made in the Imperial Parliamentof the intention of Her Majesty to dismemberthe Northern districts of New South Wales,for the purpose of establishing a refuge for theexpatriated felons of Great Britain, a certainnoble lord rose to enquire where New SouthWales was, and whether it was anywhere inthe vicinity of Botany Bay.
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