... Hints for the Improvement of the Colony LIST OF PLATES Plan of the Settlements in New South Wales View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cove View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cove ... MAJESTY'S COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, &c. &c. &c. SIR, During the period of your government, the settlements of New South Wales beheld the sunshine of their ... exploration of this hitherto unknown tract of the universe, stretching, from the north-east to the south- west, to an extent of nearly two thousand miles, to which he gave the name of New South Wales. ...