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Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany / edited by P.L. Simmonds

Call Number
N 054.2 COL
Created/Published
London : Simmonds and Ward, [1844]-1849
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 28 (April 1846)
Images
136
Notes
Pages 513-520 misprinted as 413-420, have been corrected in pencil.
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Contents

SIMMONDS’S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. RIDES, RAMBLES, AND SKETCHES IN TEXAS. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14
REMARKS UPON THE MORAL STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 15 , 16 , 17 , 18
ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC DISCOVERIES. 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29
THE EMIGRANT : A TALE OF AUSTRALIA. 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43
PLANK-ROADS IN CANADA. 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47
SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS IMPROVING THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. 47 , 48 , 49 , 50
NEW ZEALAND ITINERARY. 50 , 51 , 52 , 53
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF CUBA IN 1844 AND 1845. 54 , 55 , 56
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIADR. LEICHARDT’S PARTY. 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61
THE SOURCE OF THE YARRA. 61 , 62 , 63
REMINISCENCES OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA. 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75
RESEARCHES IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF BRITISH GUIANA FOR 1845. 79
WAZANEUR. 80
EMIGRATION AND COLONISATIONWANTS OF THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99
OUR CLAIM TO THE OREGON. 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108
THE SONG OF THE SLAVE.* 108 , 109
EDITOR’S NOTE-BOOK. 110 , 111
REVIEWS. 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. 124 , 125 , 126
CHINA. 126 , 127
AUSTRALASIA. 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 133
WEST INDIES. 133 , 134
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. 134 , 135 , 136
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. 136

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SIMMONDS’S  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

RIDES, RAMBLES, AND SKETCHES IN TEXAS.  

BY CHARLES HOOTON  

ESQ.  

AUTHOR OF “COLIN CLINK,” “BILBERRY THURLAND,” ETC. ETC.  

How natural is the propensity in man to seek for El Dorados, Happy  

Lands, wild Gardens of Eden, where flowers grow without cultivation —  

where beasts of chase are not monopolised by the arm of aristocratic  

power —where Governments are as liberal as the air—where labour  

reaps its own results, and lastly, and above all else, where man’s back  

is not exactly either broken or very badly humped by too heavy load  

of that most solid and dense of all known substances, commonly recog-  

nised under the name of taxation Poets, happy race have the faculty  

of manufacturing their own Paradises at home, without encountering  

sea-sickness and all the perils of the great deep before arriving at them.  

They can see happiness in the landscape of murky London street,  

and, by an alchemy more abstruse and subtle than was that of Roger  

Bacon, convert garret into garden, washhouse into flower-pot,  

and the dirty dimity of bedstead into the Tyrian purple drawn around  

some beautiful ideal Paphian queen.  

Ordinary people, however, are compelled, in the course of their search  

after blissful seat on earth, to go another and quite different way to  

work. The dirty lanes of mere matter-of-fact must be gone through—  

the mire of pure animal misery must be trampled in, until both body  

and mind are almost brought to stand-still; and long and heavy must  

be the labour before the garden wilderness smiles as it ought to do, and  

enables the labourer therein to laugh outright as he ought to do, from  

very joy at his changed condition.  

To speak individually, from my very youth upwards had strong  

desire, one day or another, to. squeeze myself through the gate of some  

one or other of these (next to heaven itself) most-to-be-desiied places.  

It so happened, however, that up to the year of Grace 1840, con-  

tented myself with thinking about it, and abiding my appointed time.  

At the latter end of December of that eventful year, after having  

carefully weighed in the balance the respective merits of different para-  

disaical parts of the earth, including New Zealand, and Australia (the  

present prison, alas of my friend Richard Howitt), finally made up  

my mind to go to Texas. The very name of Mexico, with its marvel-  

VOL. VII. NO. 28. APRIL, 1810.  

 

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