Nicholas pateshall's diary: this spacious harbour

 Reproduction of Third Lieutenant Nicholas Pateshall's original diary entry, which includes the passage '...upon entering this spacious harbour...'

 

Third Lieutenant Nicholas Pateshall, circa 1803. 42p document.

 

Accession number: MS13479

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Manuscripts Collection.

 

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Transcript

Upon entering this spacious harbour nothing can be more pleasing to the eye, than the beautiful green plains with lofty trees, that surrounded us, in short the country appeared more like pleasure grounds, than a wild savage Continent.

Nicholas Pateshall's diary