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I will at once inform this audience
that I tried to bring all these subjects into one lecture
but found I could not so compress it without
rendering my statements too dry & bare as
many of them will require certain illustrations.
I therefore have resolved to confine myself this
evening [word crossed out] to a certain portion, and then if you
are satisfied and the Committee of the Institution
request me, I shall be ready on a future occasion
sooner or later to deliver the remaining parts
of the various subjects.

1, The first question or questions which will naturally

arise in our minds or be asked by some of us are:
Whence did the original inhabitants of Australia
come to this country? When and how did they come? To what
nation do they seem to be related? Were they originally
as ignorant & uncivilized as they are now?
I regret, my friends, that neither I nor any one
else can give satisfactory answers to any of these
questions, though we may [indecipherable] some hints
as to probabilities; but on the whole all will remain
little more than suppositions & conjectures. As many
of you must know, ancient history, is altogether silent,
about this part of the globe; and Aboriginees are
utterly without a history of their own, & have scarcely any frag-
ments of tradition. Nor have travellers & naturalists who
have more or less explored our coasts added much information
on the subject of the Aboriginees.

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