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| The allegorical scene represented Phillip's vision for Sydney beyond its role as a penal settlement and as a future source of imperial pride and wealth--a sentiment reflected in Darwin's poem with its images of architecture and urban expansion. In October 1824 he accompanied Oxley north to Moreton Bay, mapping the coast around Redcliffe, the site originally selected for the new penal settlement but relinquished in favour of a site on the magnificent, newly-discovered Brisbane River. On 20 September 1822 Alexander Pearce and seven comrades escaped from the penal settlement of Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania's remote south west. |
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