South Australia: An Exposure of the Absurd, Unfounded, and Contradictory Statements in James's Six Months in South Australia (Classic R

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Excerpt from South Australia: An Exposure of the Absurd, Unfounded, and Contradictory Statements in James's "Six Months in South Australia"But this is veniai, compared with many of the contradictions that the volume contains. No sooner is our author fairly landed, with out the loss of either life or limb, although, according to his own account, frequently sticking fast in the mud, than he begins to ridicule the port. This, he exclaims, is Port Adelaide! Port Misery would be a better name, for nothing in any rt of the world can surpass it, in everything that is wretched an inconvenient. He elsewhere describes its entrance as a muddy creek a narrow ditch (only imagine, gentle reader, ships of 400 and 500 tons burthen sailing up a narrow dirty ditch l)-the shore he calls an uninha bitable swamp (it is not a swam and it is not only not unin habitable, but is inhabited), and t e port a horrid hole 3 and the new comers he represents as being filled with feelings of shame and disappointment at being so taken in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.