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19th-Century Australian Travel Writing

Scotsman John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) was a politician, clergyman, educationalist, immigration organiser, journalist and prolific author. At the time of this publication, Lang was a Senior Minister of the Scots Church Sydney, Representative of the City of Sydney in the Parliament of New South Wales, honorary member of the African Institute of France, of the American Oriental Society, and of the Literary Institute of Olinda. In Queensland, Australia; Highly Eligible Field for Emigration, Lang detailed Aboriginal customs and manners, and described Queensland's climate, government, and production, with notes on Queensland as a site of colonisation and emigration. Lang included numerous appendices which provided information on land acts, agricultural guides, Aboriginal languages, economic statistics, as well as his missionary tour among Aboriginal peoples. Lang also wrote Phillipsland; or the Country Hitherto Designated Port Phillip: Its Present Condition and Prospects, A Highly Eligible Field for Emigration (1847); The Australian Emigrant's Manual; or, A Guide to the Gold Colonies of New South Wales and Port Phillip (1852); Notes of a Trip to the Westward and Southward, in the Colony of New South Wales; In the Months of March and April, 1862; Re-published from the Sydney "Empire" (1862).