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| The Rev Clarke described how it was decided that the //Roxburgh Castle// did not harbour any contagious disease, so the next day it sailed to Darling Harbour, anchoring adjacent to [[wp>Goat_Island_(Port_Jackson)|Goat Island]]. TLM-P's memoir unfortunately ends with him disembarking, so we have no information about his first impressions of Sydney people or how he found employment. If he was like the Rev Clarke, it was a kaleidoscope of competing impressions including of gangs of convicts working with their chains clanking and bushrangers in the outlying areas of white settlement. Some there were drought-breaking violent thunderstorms which rendered many of the roads hazardous mudslides.((Elena Grainger, //The remarkable Reverend Clarke: the life and times of the father of Australian geology//, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p.75-85.)) By then, TLM-P had likely found his first employment gaining colonial experience, to the north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley. | The Rev Clarke described how it was decided that the //Roxburgh Castle// did not harbour any contagious disease, so the next day it sailed to Darling Harbour, anchoring adjacent to [[wp>Goat_Island_(Port_Jackson)|Goat Island]]. TLM-P's memoir unfortunately ends with him disembarking, so we have no information about his first impressions of Sydney people or how he found employment. If he was like the Rev Clarke, it was a kaleidoscope of competing impressions including of gangs of convicts working with their chains clanking and bushrangers in the outlying areas of white settlement. Soon after they landed, here were drought-breaking violent thunderstorms which rendered many of the roads hazardous mudslides.((Elena Grainger, //The remarkable Reverend Clarke: the life and times of the father of Australian geology//, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p.75-85.)) By then, TLM-P had likely found his first employment in the colony, to the north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley. |
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